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John Michael Rysbrack

Preliminary Design for Monument to John Gay the Poet

c. 1736
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper
12.5 × 13.5 cm (4.9 × 5.3 in)

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