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Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier. Stipple engraving by J. Collyer, 1786, after J. Russell.

Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.

A soldier stands on a wall as a man cleans his boots. Coloured etching.

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Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.

A soldier stands on a wall as a man cleans his boots. Coloured etching.