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A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: From the First Rudiments, to the Finished Picture No. 6

1813
Book with four aquatints and letterpress in black on cream wove paper, in box
48.7 × 0.2 cm (19.2 × 0.1 in)

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