Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA, Sheet of sketches including a female head in profile, by 1818.
Pen and brown ink on laid paper. 79 mm x 109 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA (1769 - 1830)
RA Collection: Art
79 mm x 109 mm
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