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Portrait of Miss Read

View of Hampstead with a barn on the left

Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

In the foreground a crowd of people have gathered to watch the disaster

'The Spur-Fish; and the Indian Gattorugina' Size:XS: 20 x 15cm Portrait of Miss ReadMarine zoological studies of two fishes. Plate 282 from chapter 72 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'Geo Edwards Delin: et Excud: AD 1755.' Original: etching. 1755

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