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Joseph Wright

Landscape with Building on a Distant Hill (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 33 recto)

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

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