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Jean Sylvain Bailly. Mezzotint by C. F. G. Levachez after J. Duplessi-Bertaux.

Sir William Withey Gull. Mezzotint by R. S. Clouston, 1888.

British mezzotinto portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century / arranged according to the engravers ; the inscriptions given at full length ; and the variations of state precisely set forth ; accompanied by biographical notes, and appendix of a selection of the prices produced at public sales by some of the specimens, down to the present time.

William Osborn. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1791, after T. Hardy.

Printed images in early modern Britain : essays in interpretation / edited by Michael Hunter.

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William Osborn. Mezzotint by J. Jones, 1791, after T. Hardy.

Sir William Withey Gull. Mezzotint by R. S. Clouston, 1888.

Printed images in early modern Britain : essays in interpretation / edited by Michael Hunter.

Jean Sylvain Bailly. Mezzotint by C. F. G. Levachez after J. Duplessi-Bertaux.