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Joseph Nollekens|Captain William Blair|Lord Robert Manners|Captain William Bayne

Design for "The Three Captains Memorial"

ca. 1784
Watercolor over graphite, surrounded by a gold line, on paper backed by canvas (stretched on modern wooden frame)
80.5 × 66 cm (31.7 × 26 in)

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