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The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)

Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 438

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with her left Hand, andwith her right, uncovering the Leg, and (hewing to the Sifter, at whom,fhe looks, that the Foot has already taken Root. Another Nymphwho is taking the Child, has her left Side fronting, yet her Back-parts are moftly vifible ; fhe is on her Knees, the left forward, the o-ther…

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