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John Michael Rysbrack

Hope: Design for the Unexecuted Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

c. 1733
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper
9 × 5.4 cm (3.5 × 2.1 in)

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