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Etching of blindfolded allegorical figure Comedy reading a book inscribed Nature, with a child and a masked figure beside a p

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Comedy (no.12 from Fifteen Etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds), John Hamilton Mortimer (1778), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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An etching of a blindfolded female allegorical figure leaning over an open book inscribed with the word Nature, with small figures depicted on its pages. A child holding a mask and an older masked figure sit beside a stone pedestal, with foliage and sea in the background. The print is titled Comedy, number 12 from Fifteen Etchings dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, by John Hamilton Mortimer, dated 1778.

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