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Sir William Chambers

Design for an Oval Mirror, Surmounted by an Urn and Draped with Neoclassic Swags

1740–96
Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash and watercolor
47 × 37.8 cm (18.5 × 14.9 in)

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