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Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings|Elizabeth Jackson|James Boswell|Samuel Johnson

Walking Up the High Street, Edinburgh (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the First)

May 15, 1786
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26.6 × 31.4 cm (10.5 × 12.4 in)

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