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Joseph Wright

Landscape with Distant Buildings (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 28 recto)

1774–75
Graphite, brush and brown, gray and yellow ink wash or watercolor
23.4 × 17.1 cm (9.2 × 6.7 in)

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