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Sir William Chambers

Design for a Chimney-piece, for Thomas Hollis of Lincoln's Inn, London

after 1754
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, touches of watercolor
26.2 × 20.3 cm (10.3 × 8 in)

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