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Athens; men in classical dress grouped in front of a temple with a portico and pediment, around Pericles, who is seated to right, pointing at a plan of a building indicated to him by a man standing at his side and held by a young man; a soldier and another talking to left and two behind the chair, one holding a mask, the other a lyre, with the acropolis in the background; after Stuart; illustration to Willett's 'A Description of the Library at Merly' (London 1785); unfinished proof before letters. Etching and engraving
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