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Pen and grey wash drawing of two men in an 18th-century interior, one reading a book, the other holding papers at a desk.

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Hogarth Solicits His Patron Bishop Hoadley to Look Over His MS. 'Analysis of Beauty', John Thomas Smith (1817), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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A pen and grey wash drawing shows two men in period dress in a richly furnished room, one seated in an upholstered armchair reading an open book while the other, in a powdered wig, sits at a draped table holding papers. The room includes a wall clock, a shelf of ceramic vases, a curtained window opening onto a distant windmill landscape, and framed pictures on the wall. Titled as a print from 1817 by John Thomas Smith.

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