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Thomas Gainsborough

A Woodman Seated on a Bundle of Faggots

1787
Black chalk with stumping, heightened with touches of white gouache and traces of white chalk, on buff laid paper
48.5 × 29.6 cm (19.1 × 11.7 in)

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