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Leaf from a sketchbook containing 149 leaves with studies for figure-compositions, portraits and landscapes, many of which are for decorative works Sheet of studies; including Andromeda, design for a ceiling with the assembly of the gods, design for a painted cove with cupids and other figures, David playing the harp to Saul ('Samuel', I, XVI, 23), the Rape of Helen, and Fame. 1699-1716 Variously pen and brown ink, and graphite Verso: Sheet of studies, in part related to the decoration of the Queen's drawing room at Hampton Court; cupids supporting an oval medallion, a nude figure, two studies of Sancho Panza leaving for the Isle of Barataria (?) from 'Don Quixote', a wall of the Queen's Drawing Room with Prince George of Denmark pointing to the Danish fleet, and a sketch for the surrounds of the feigned tapestry in the Queen's Drawing Room (?). Variously pen and brown ink, and graphite
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