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Samuel Johnson|James Boswell|Elizabeth Jackson|Thomas Rowlandson|Samuel Collings

The Vision (Picturesque Beauties of Boswell, Part the Second)

May 15, 1786
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26.8 × 28.8 cm (10.6 × 11.3 in)

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