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Thomas Barker

Two Girls Playing on Combs (recto); Sketch of Seated Woman with Fragment of Another Figure (verso)

c. 1790
Charcoal, with stumping, heightened with white chalk (recto and verso), on pale brown wove paper
17.6 × 21.5 cm (6.9 × 8.5 in)

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