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Francesco Bartolozzi|Biagio Rebecca|John Bell

Idyll: Frontispiece to "The Poets of Great Britain, Complete from Chaucer to Churchill"

March 13, 1782
Engraving; second state of four
13.7 × 8.8 cm (5.4 × 3.5 in)

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