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The Wolves Descending from the Alps - Image 1
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Peltro William Tomkins, William Hamilton, and others

The Wolves Descending from the Alps

1795

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The Wolves Descending from the Alps

1795

Physical Qualities Stipple engraving and etching, Sheet: 411 × 337 mm. (16 3/16 × 13 1/4 in.) Image: 327 × 262 mm. (12 7/8 × 10 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.4645
An illustration to James Thompson's poem "The Seasons" (1730).

Signed: 1

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower margin, in plate "[indecipherable] as the Act Directs March 13 . 1796. by P W. Tomkins No 49 New Bond St London." Verso: lower right in graphite diamond with "9789"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

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