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Thomas Barker

Bust of a Woman (recto); Draped Figure, Three-Quarter Length (verso)

c. 1790
Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto and verso), on dark pink wove paper with blue fibers
22.5 × 16.9 cm (8.9 × 6.7 in)

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