Portrait of an American Girl in the Nude  

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Portrait of an American Girl in the Nude[1] («Portrait d'une jeune fille américaine dans l'état de nudité») is a 1915 drawing by French artist Francis Picabia. It depicts a spark plug and is a satirical homage to the machine age and the American pin up girl, first published in the art periodical 291.

It is one of his "Mechanical drawings".

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