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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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25 × 27.3 cm (9.8 × 10.7 in)

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