Design for a mural decoration, Germany, (1928). 'About 1760'. After a water-colour. Plate XCIX, fig 192, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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Design for a mural decoration, Germany, (1928). 'About 1760'. After a water-colour. Plate XCIX, fig 192, from &quot;An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century&quot; with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

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Design for a mural decoration, Germany, (1928). 'About 1760'. After a water-colour. Plate XCIX, fig 192, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]