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John Michael Rysbrack

Wisdom: Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

c. 1733
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
12.5 × 9.2 cm (4.9 × 3.6 in)

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