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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 Frontispiece; Hercules supporting an oval cartouche inscribed " Jac: Thornhill. ejus Liber An: Dom: 1699", attended by cupids with symbols of the Arts, and above him Mercury, Minerva and Fame, with Apollo and the Muses on clouds. 1699 Pen and brown ink, with grey wash Verso: sheet of small studies including infant Bacchanals with goat, man in bed eating, Time and 'Genius Pictoris', a trophy, 'Genius Pictoris' (study for 1882,0726.40.2) and an unidentified composition Graphite
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