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A Treatise on Landscape Painting and Effect in Water Colours: From the First Rudiments, to the Finished Picture No. 1

1813
Book with six etchings and letterpress in black on cream wove paper, in box
49 × 0.5 cm (19.3 × 0.2 in)

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