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John Thane|Carl Friedrich Abel|Thomas Rowlandson|Thomas Gainsborough

Landscape with a Figure Herding Cattle, and a Shepherd Resting

May 21, 1789
Etching, soft-ground etching and aquatint
30 × 37.7 cm (11.8 × 14.8 in)

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