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Untitled (Study for a family portrait group)

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Study for a family portrait group; ten figures grouped in various poses on a chequered pavement, in the background, mansion or pavilion with a high-pitched roof, a lake, distant house and hills, to right, a sphinx with trees beyond. c.1740-42 (?). Pen and brown ink, over red chalk, and grey wash and watercolour.

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