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Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, bust-length in profile to left, wearing queue wig, sash over jacket with Garter star, and cravat; tablet below; from a wax model by Gosset; frontispiece to 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son' (London, undated edition), the title-page at right with allegorical image, featuring a mask, scroll, inkwell with quill pen, and crucifix.
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