The autobiography and correspondence of Mary Granville, mrs. Delany, ed. by lady Llanover, 第 1 巻

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277 ページ - Hogarth has promised to give me some instructions about drawing that will be of great use, — some rules of his own that he says will improve me more in a day than a year's learning in the common way.

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