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12 June 2018
Painted frontispiece of The Queen’s Travels in Scotland and Ireland, translated into Hindi (1875), South Asia. Courtesy Royal Collection Trust; © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018: obviously by an unknown painter, but what an incredible sense of proportion and colour and atmosphere.
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