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Portrait of Sir William Herschel, half-length, in an oval frame, in profile to the left, dressed in a frockcoat with his hair powdered and fashionably curled and pulled back into a queue, a globe, a celestial map and telescopes below, the title on a cartouche below, illustration to the European Magazine (1785)Engraving
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