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Bacon, John, 1740–1799
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Barry, James, 1741–1806
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Drawings & Watercolors
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male
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18th century
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black ink
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figure study
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portrait
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allegory
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man
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pelicans
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Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), author and lexicographer
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Herman W. Liebert
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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John Bacon, 1740–1799
Allegorical female figure: piety holding a nest of pelicans
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