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

The Embrace (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

May 15, 1786
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26.8 × 29.3 cm (10.6 × 11.5 in)

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