Sir David Wilkie RA, The Pifferari playing Hymns to the Madonna, 1846.
Lithograph. 397 mm x 303 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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The Pifferari playing Hymns to the Madonna, 1846
After Sir David Wilkie RA (1785 - 1841)
RA Collection: Art
397 mm x 303 mm
Sir David Wilkie's sketches, Spanish & oriental / drawn on stone by Joseph Nash. - London
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