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Murck, \"Acquisitions 1968\", <EM>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 27, no. 2 (1968): p. 94-105., p. 103","date":1968,"id":6009,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774498"},{"boilertext":"John Chaloner Smith,<EM> British mezzotinto portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century</EM> (London: H. Sotheran &amp; Co., 1883).","citation":"John Chaloner Smith,<EM> British mezzotinto portraits; being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century</EM> (London: H. Sotheran &amp; Co., 1883)., no. 111","date":1883,"id":6260,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/40485920"},{"boilertext":"Charles E. Russell, <EM>English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century</EM> (London: Halton &amp; T. Smith, Ltd., 1926).","citation":"Charles E. Russell, <EM>English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century</EM> (London: Halton &amp; T. 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