Captain, The Hon. Edmund Phipps, by Richard Cosway

An image of Cosway, Richard. Captain, The Hon. Edmund Phipps. Watercolour on ivory. 1788.

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Cosway, Richard. Captain, The Hon. Edmund Phipps. Watercolour on ivory. 1788.

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Accession Number: PD.198-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 760 pixels
Image width: 560 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.5 (Windows)
Filesize: 110.83kB
Captured: 2010:12:07 14:27:47

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