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Richard Wilson

View of the Colosseum

1751–56
Black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray paper; sheet laid down on pink paper mount with double border in brown ink
25.9 × 19.5 cm (10.2 × 7.7 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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