Sir William Quiller Orchardson RA, Sketch for 'The Venetian Fruit-Seller', 1870s.
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper. 244 mm x 340 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Sketch for 'The Venetian Fruit-Seller', 1870s
Sir William Quiller Orchardson RA (1832 - 1910)
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244 mm x 340 mm
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