Francis D. Bedford, Bee-Farmer.
Colour-printed wood-engraving. 170 mm x 229 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Bee-Farmer
Francis D. Bedford (1864 - 1934)
RA Collection: Art
170 mm x 229 mm
Four and twenty toilers / pictures by F. D. Bedford ; verses by E. V. Lucas. - London: [1900]
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