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Painting of women with jugs and a child on a rocky path above the sea, with washerwomen on the beach below.

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A group of women in traditional dress walks along a grassy path above a rocky shore, one carrying a jug overhead and another holding a child and a basket. In the distance, figures work on the sand and rocks by the sea beneath a sky with scattered clouds.

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Date

1866

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Print

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Wikimedia Commons

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Public domain

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