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Pencil sketch of workers in hats demolishing a stone building, swinging picks on rubble beside an arched doorway.

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Chinese Coolies Demolishing a Building, George Chinnery (1833), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A pencil drawing shows several laborers in wide-brimmed hats raising picks and mattocks atop a heap of rubble, while a figure in the foreground works at the base beside buckets. A stone archway and a cornice of a building stand at the right edge.

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