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David Cox, the elder

A French Market Scene, possibly Boulogne

1829 or 1832
Watercolor, with touches of opaque watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper, edge mounted onto buff wove paper, ruled in the margins with pen and brown ink
16.6 × 20.8 cm (6.5 × 8.2 in)

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