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John Michael Rysbrack

Unexecuted Designs for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

c. 1733
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on tan laid paper
18.9 × 29.6 cm (7.4 × 11.7 in)

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