Angelica Kauffman RA, Mourners at a Tomb, 1 February 1781.
Stipple-engraving. 94 mm x 150 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Mourners at a Tomb, 1 February 1781
After Angelica Kauffman RA (1741 - 1807)
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This scene was produced as a frontispiece to Samuel Jackson Pratt's gothic novel Emma Corbett (1780).
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94 mm x 150 mm
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