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Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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