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'A View of the Dock Gates at Portsmouth taken from the Navy Coffee house window, Decr 74' [Bray album]. No. 19 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) The view appears to be along the Dockyard wall towards the Hard, with one of the waterfront taverns on the
December 1774
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'Cumberland' (1774). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and stern quarter decoration and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Cumberland' (1774), a 74-gun, Third
26 May 1774
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'Duke' (1777); 'Saint George' (1785). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the sheer lines with figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Duke' (1777), built at Plymouth Dockyard, and for Saint 'George' (1785) built at Po
circa August 1774
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'Duke' (1777); 'Sant George' (1785); 'Glory' (1788). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Duke' (1777) and 'Glory' (1788), and with an altered bowsprit for 'Saint George' (1785), al
circa April 1774
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'Hector' (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board decoration, sheer lines with inboard detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Hector' (1774), a 74-gun Third Rate, two-decker. The plan may repr
Circa May to July 1774
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'View of part of Owharre [Fare] Harbour, Island of Huahine'. Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discovered on Cook's second voyage, undertak
1774
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'View of Resolution [Vaitahu] Bay in the Marquesas'. Hodges' paintings of the Pacific are vivid records of British exploration. He was appointed by the Admiralty to record the places discovered on Cook's second voyage, undertaken in th
1774
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'Vigilant' (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the inboard profile for 'Vigilant' (1774), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker building at Bucklers Hard by Messrs Henry and Anthony Adams.
22 September 1774
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'Vigilant' (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plans showing the body plan, stern board decoration, sheer lines with decoration detail and figurehead, and longitudinal half-breadth for 'Vigilant' (1774), a 64-gun Third Rate, two-decker, as built by M
6 October 1774
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. Base of case for the achromatic telescope has a tortoiseshell barrel,
1774
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. deck
1774
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. Lid of case for the achromatic telescope has a tortoiseshell barrel.
1774
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. lines & profile
1774
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. Obverse: Engraved on a smooth surface a starboard broadside view of a three-masted vessel at anchor. Legend: 'SUCCESS TO THE PACIFIC'. Below, '1774'. Reverse: Inscription above and below two pierced hearts. Inscription: 'M.A. VA
1774
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. Paper. Printed compass card. Decorated North point. Graduated to points and quadrantally in degrees.
1774
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. Red earthenware bowl, glazed inside in pale mottled green and brown with sgraffito decoration depicting a cutter, inscribed 'The Elizebeth (sic) sloop E.S.1774.' It has a wide flat base with no foot.
1774
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. This achromatic telescope has a tortoiseshell barrel, a single draw tube and silvered brass fittings. Its original rayskin-covered case also survives. The eyepiece has a thumbwheel, allowing the observer to select one of four numbered lenses of differen
1774
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. Three-ring universal equinoctial ring dial for all latitudes. Standard dial (see related terms) except for the following details:- The dial has a suspension ring attached to a bracket which moves in the grooved outer edges of the meridian ring. On the
1774
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A map of the most inhabited part of New England, containing the provinces of Massachusets Bay and New Hampshire with the colonies of Conecticut and Rhode Island.. Two sheets. Hand col. engr. Medium: Each sheet is 2 leaves joined at centreline. Scale: [ca.
1774
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Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Centurion (1774), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, as built by Barnard & Turner at Harwich. She wa
Circa June 1774
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Centurion (1774). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the roundhouse, quarterdeck, forecastle, upper deck, lower deck, and orlop deck with platforms for Centurion (1774), a 50-gun Fourth Rate, two-decker, as built at Harwich. Note that the upper and lower decks a
Circa June 1774
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Ceres (1777). Scale: 1:48. Plan showing the body plan, sheer lines with some midship section framing, longitudinal half-breadth for Ceres (1777), an 18-gun Ship Sloop. The plan states that she was based on the sheer of the captured French Pomona (captur
5 August 1774
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Chart of the West Indies. Single sheet. Hand col. engr. Medium: Segmented and backed. Scale: ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated Mercator chart, meridian of London. Scales in British statute miles, nautical leagues and marine miles. Conten
1774
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Deptford Dockyard - Plan.. Plan.
1774
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Diligente labore. Print
1774
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Dutch Yacht becalmed and a ship hove down. Print
1774
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K3. A one day marine timekeeper with a 102mm diameter bronze dial plate, with three white enamel subsidiary dials, with the upper dial indicating hours in roman hour numerals. In the lower left is a dial indicating minutes with Arabic five minute figures
1774
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Medal commemorating peace with the Ottoman Porte. Medal commemorating peace with the Ottoman Porte. Obverse: Bust of Czarina Catharine II, laureate; in coat of mail, cloak, order and coronet (right). Legend in Russian. Reverse: A goddess armed standing,
1774
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Orpheus (1774). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with stern board detail, sheer lines with inboard detail, and longitudinal half-breadth for Orpheus (1774), a 32-gun, Fifth Rate Frigate, as built at Harwich by Messrs Barnard and Turner.
1774
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Plan and view of Gingerah commonly called Donda Rajapore on the Malabar coast in Lat 18* 16'N by A Werner. Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Mounted on card. Scale: [ca.1:90 000]. Contents Note: One view, two insets, Inset: Conserah Island, Inset: Gingerah
1774
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Plan of Lampon Bay on the East Coast of Luzon by Manuel Galves, 1754.. Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca.1:350 000]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Soundings. Scale of nautic miles. Additional Places: Lamon. Contents Note: Text note on the ease of travellin
1774
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand'. Legend: "LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN". Exergue: "SOC.LOND.IN.RESVSCITAT.INTERMORTVORVM I
1850
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN'. Exergue: 'SOC . LOND . IN . RESVSCITAT . INTERMORTVORVM
1834
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN'. Exergue: 'SOC . LOND . IN . RESVSCITAT . INTERMORTVORVM
1832
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN'. Exergue: 'SOC.LOND.IN.RESVSCITAT.INTERMORTVORVM INSTIT.
1858
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: "LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN". Exergue: "SOC.LOND.IN.RESVSCITAT.INTERMORTVORVM INSTIT.
1864
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1774-1869. Royal Humane Society Medal awarded to Frank Anthony Gataker (1844-1914). Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA F
1864
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Royal Humane Society Medal 1776-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN' [Peradventure a little spark may yet lie hid]. Exergue: '
1856
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Royal Humane Society Medal, Silver 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with slight drapery flying out from behind left arm instead of a cloak, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: "LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN". Exergue: "SOC.LOND.IN.
1805
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Royal Humane Society Medal, Silver 1774-1869. Obverse: A nude boy with slight drapery flying out from behind left arm instead of a cloak, blowing on a torch held in his right hand. Legend: "LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN". Exergue: "SOC.LOND.IN.
1818
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Surprize (1774). Scale 1:48. Plan showing the body plan with sternboard decoration, sheer lines,with figurehead, and longitudinal half breadth as proposed and approved for Surprize (1774), a 28-gun, Sixth Rate Frigate, as built and fitted at Woolwich Dock
1774
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The 'Resolution' in the Marquesas, 1774. The landscape painter William Hodges, who trained under Richard Wilson, accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the South Pacific 1772-75 with a brief to record the places visited. While some of
1774
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The Dutch Fleet. Van De Velde and Charles Gore. Medium includes grey wash.
1774
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White Haven. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 49' W. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: There are sailing directions in the title and a separate bo
1781
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White Haven. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 49' W. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: There are sailing directions in the title and a separate bo
1779
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White Haven. Single sheet. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:30 000 (lat). Cartographic Note: Aligned on magnetic north. Variation shown 14 degrees 49' W. Additional Places: Nova Scotia. Contents Note: There are sailing directions in the title and a separate bo
1774
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White Haven. There are nine variants of this chart in the collection.
1774
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The Hon Anne Seymour Damer, 1749-1828, sculptress. Print
20 Jan 1774
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Ships wrecked on a rocky coast. From the original drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire. Technique includes roulette work.; Plate No.33.
25 Apr 1774
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A cow, lying down [Bray album]. No. 4 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Dated and signed 'May 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), this sketch of a long-horned cow resting by a bush was probably done in Kent, while Bray was at home there before be
May 1774
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A grazing horse [Bray album]. No. 5 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Dated and signed 'May 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), this sketch of what is probably a riding horse (from the docked tail) is likely to have been done in Kent, while Bray
May 1774
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'A Close View in a Chalk Pit at Upper Deal in Kent' [Bray album]. No. 61 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Titled as above and dated and signed 'AVpGB June 74' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), this was made near Bray's home in the summer b
June 1774
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'Taking in New Hay and stacking it Jun 74' [Bray album]. No. 2 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) This harvesting scene was probably sketched in Kent while Bray was at home on half-pay in the summer of 1774, before he joined the 'Pallas' at Po
June 1774
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Anchored warship firing a salute [Bray album]. No. 35 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Inscribed in ink 'AdVprGB June 74' ('to the life by Gabriel Bray'), this drawing shows a British naval two-decker of at least 64-guns, with a cutter to th
June 1774
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Seamen painting a jolly boat [Bray album]. No. 9 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing signed 'AdVprGB July 74' (to the life by Gabriel Bray) showing two men working on a jolly boat (the smallest boat warships generally carried), which has been p
July 1774
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'A Harvest Man - Old Hook, August 74' [Bray album]. No. 8 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a county reaper signed 'AdVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). It shows the reaper with his sickle and a small barrico or keg, probably
August 1774
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'A small cottage at Middle Deal in Kent, June 74' [Bray album]. No. 6 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a small cottage signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), drawn in Kent while Bray was at home before being appointed t
June 1774
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Shipping in a Harbour. From the Original Drawing in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire. Technique includes roulette work.; Plate No.54.
1 Aug 1774
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John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrook, First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty.... Print
30 Aug 1774
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'A Sticker-up of Bills on Tower Hill at the Rendezvous at the King's Arms' [Bray album]. No. 10 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Titled as above and signed, twice, 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), once on the drawing itself with
October 1774
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Man carrying a sack [Bray album]. No. 13 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Dated and signed 'Oct 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), this was almost certainly observed in London while Bray was on his way to join the 'Pallas' at Portsmou
October 1774
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Man having his shoes polished [Bray album]. No. 12 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Dated and signed 'Oct 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray) this is another telling social vignette of town life, probably seen in London while Bray was on the way
October 1774
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A New Method of Macarony Making, as practised at Boston. This print shows the British perspective on events in America. It condemns the violent defiance of law and order, such as the tarring and feathering of John Malcolm, the Commissioner of Customs at B
12 October 1774
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Full length portrait of a Polynesian man, possibly Omai?. This engraving after a drawing by artist William Hodges, comes from the official account of Cook's second voyage, 'A Voyage towards the South Pole', published by Strahan and Cadell i
25 Oct 1774
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'A shop on [the] Point at Portsmouth, Novr: 74' [Bray album]. No. 39 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Titled and dated as above and signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray) at the top, and also initialled 'GB' in the top right
November 1774
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'A Waterman at Portsmouth Point' [Bray album]. No. 15 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a waterman signed and dated 'AV GB Nov 74' (to the life Gabriel Bray). This and PAJ1991, both made at Portsmouth before Bray sailed in the &#
November 1774
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'A Waterman at Portsmouth Point' [Bray album]. No. 16 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a waterman signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). This and PAJ1990, both made at Portsmouth before Bray sailed in the 'Pallas�
November 1774
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'Four Marines eating Pease on board the Pallas, Novr 74' [Bray album]. No. 18 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of four marines signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). It shows fully uniformed marines - probably a 'mess&
November 1774
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'The Sailmaker ticketting the Hammocks on board the Pallas, Nov 74' [Bray album]. No. 17 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a sailmaker signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). Men were issued with hammocks which bore a numb
November 1774
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'A sailor centinel on the Pallas's gangway' [Bray album]. No. 27 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Titled as above at the top of the drawing, and dated and signed at the bottom 'Decr 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). The date and
December 1774
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'Deserters [Desertas] taken on the spott from the Pallas, Decr 74' [Bray album]. No. 20 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) (Updated, August 2018). On two sheets of paper, joined vertically with the title and date inscribed below the drawing, on a backin
December 1774
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'The Steward of the Pallas weighing a Piece of Beef, Decr 74' [Bray album]. No. 23 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a steward signed 'AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), this was probably done at Portsmouth when the 'Pal
December 1774
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'Under the Pallas's half deck' [Bray album]. No. 25 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing dated and signed 'Decr: 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray). This is a still-life study aft on the 'Pallas, with Marines' drum
December 1774
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'View of the fountain &c at St Cruiz in the Island of Teneriff, Decr 74' [Bray album]. No. 22 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) Titled and dated as above, and signed 'AV prGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray) on a backing sheet, this shows a
January 1775
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'[The E]xpedition Brigg as she appeared wreck'd on the W[este]rn Point of the [island] of Sta Cruiz Teneriffe A[dV pr ]GB - Dec 1774' [Bray album]. No. 21 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing showing a British brig called 'Expedition&#
January 1775
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Half length portrait of a young man [Bray album]. No. 26 of 74 (PAJ1976 - PAJ2049) A drawing of a young man dated and signed 'Decr: 74 AVprGB' (to the life by Gabriel Bray), the date suggests this is possibly one of the 'Pallas's'
December 1774
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Bayle. Print
1 Dec 1774
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