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“Madonna and Child,” engraving by Andrea Mantegna
Master of the Playing Cards: A Poet Reading
San rock engraving
Figure 6: “The Ploughman” behind a two-wheeled plow drawn by horses. Wood engraving from the “Dance of Death” by Hans Holbein, the Younger, c. 1540. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Wordsworth in his later years
Hear about the four states of the Martin Droeshout engraved portrait of William Shakespeare, first published with the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare's plays
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