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The works of Jonathan Richardson : containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essays on the art of criticism, so far as it relates to painting. III. The science of a connoisseur (1792)

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England · [London] : Sold by B. White & Son... T. and J. Egerton ... J. Debrett ... R. Faulder and W. Miller ... J. Cuthell ... J. Barker ... and E. Jeffery ... · leaf 162

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