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Thomas Barker

Young Boy Seated, from the first issue of Specimens of Polyautography

1803
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, tipped onto mount with aquatint border in brown on cream wove paper
29.5 × 21.2 cm (11.6 × 8.3 in)

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