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A woman asleep in an armchair: her book is slipping out of her hand, the rest of the room is in disarray; representing oblivion. Lithograph by H. Bertremieux after G.S. Newton.

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A woman asleep in an armchair: her book is slipping out of her hand, the rest of the room is in disarray; representing oblivion. Lithograph by H. Bertremieux after G.S. Newton.