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    A male bearded term

    c.1780-85

    Chiaroscuro woodcut, printed form two blocks in green and black | RCIN 852783

    A chiaroscuro woodcut reproducing a 16th-century drawing now in the British Museum, London (inv. no.1901,0417.30). Lettered with artists' initials and date (1785?). This figure was printed together with a female term on one sheet. The female term (also after a drawing now in the British Museum) can be found at RCIN 852784.
    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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