Thomas Rowlandson, Copper plate printers at work, 1785.
Etching. 156 mm x 190 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
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Copper plate printers at work, 1785
Thomas Rowlandson (1757 - 1827)
RA Collection: Art
156 mm x 190 mm
Etchings, by & from the most esteem'd English artists - [s.l.]: c.1875]
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