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Prints and Drawings1

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Unknown artist1

Date

17001

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Drawings & Watercolors1

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18th century1

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brown ink1
cardboard[remove]1
gouache1
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animal art1

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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection1

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The Purple Heron

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