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John Hamilton Mortimer|Sir Joshua Reynolds

A Captain of Banditti Sending Out a Party (from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds")

December 8, 1778
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29.8 × 20.2 cm (11.7 × 8 in)

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