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Title: Historical portraits ... the lives of C.R.L. Fletcher ..
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: University of California Libraries
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