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Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.
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Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Soft-ground etching.

1772

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: A great man in distress. Il n'ya au monde deux heros le roi de Prusse et le Chevalier Descassau. In all the world, but hero's two I know Prussia's fam'd king & Marquis Descassau. Vide the Chevrs. own poetry.

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