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The school of art,, or, most compleat drawing-book extant: consisting of an extensive series of well chosen examples, selected from the designs of ... Watteau, Boucher, Bouchardon, Le Brun, Eisen, &c. &c. Engraved on sixty folio copper plates

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1765.
Call number: 427727
Creator: Smith, Gabriel (1724-1783)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: (folio)
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