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Samuel Johnson|Elizabeth Jackson|James Boswell|Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings

Walking Up the High Street, Edinburgh (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

May 15, 1786
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24.7 × 25.8 cm (9.7 × 10.2 in)

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