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Samuel Collings|Samuel Johnson|Elizabeth Jackson|Thomas Rowlandson|James Boswell

Chatting (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

May 30, 1786
Etching
25.9 × 30.7 cm (10.2 × 12.1 in)

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