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Pencil and wash sketch of about ten overlapping portraits of women in 19th-century bonnets and hairstyles.

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A pencil and grey wash study sheet showing about ten head-and-shoulder portraits of women in mid-nineteenth-century hairstyles, bonnets and hats, arranged in overlapping groups. The central figure wears a decorated dress with flowers at the bodice and a sketched signature-like inscription appears along the lower edge.

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