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William Hogarth

Plate Two, from The Analysis of Beauty

1756/61
Etching and engraving in black on cream laid paper (now split in two, with the left side laid down on back book cover and the right side in two parts)
36.5 × 49.5 cm (14.4 × 19.5 in)

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