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Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Etching by J. MacArdell.
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Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Etching by J. MacArdell.

Unknown artist

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Lettering: The Chevalier du Halley Descazeaux, drawn by publick fancy. Walking (sick & stout) in the streets of London; with no other fear, but the fear of God before his eyes.---- Cÿ vous voyes, (sans vanité,) un grand hom̂me en adversité. It is here, indeed (without vanity) the form of a great man, in adversity. J. McArdell invt. et sculpt.

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