Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
17-18 December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/979
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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