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John Bacon, the younger

Design for a Monument to Sailors

n.d.
Pen and black and brown ink and brush and gray and blue wash, with touches of black chalk, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper
52.8 × 35.3 cm (20.8 × 13.9 in)

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