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John Michael Rysbrack

Unexecuted Design for the Monument to the First Duke of Marlborough

c. 1733
Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper
23.3 × 17 cm (9.2 × 6.7 in)

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