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… many figures ’ (Vertue III, 54, 57; my italics). 2 . See, for example, George Vertue, ‘Notebooks’ : ‘Vertue I’, Walpole Society (vol. 18, 1929-30), p.105, 147; ‘Vertue II’, Walpole Society (vol. 20, 1931-2), p.128-9; ‘Vertue III’, Walpole Society (vol. 22, 1933-4), p. 16, 23. One of Hogarth’s first experiments in the new mode of portraiture was particularly …
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