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- Title:
Joseph Nollekens with His Bust of Laurence Sterne
- Date:
- 1772
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.762
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1981.25.762FR
- Subject Terms:
- artist | bust | clergyman | drawing | light | man | pencil | portrait | sculptor | sculpture
- Associated People:
- Nollekens, Joseph (1737–1823), sculptor
- Access:
- Not on view
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1211
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