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File:SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg

Summary

Artist Pieter van Dyke
Title Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
Date 1795
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 559 × 457 mm (22.01 × 17.99 in)
Source/Photographer http://www.zeno.org/Literatur/I/coleridg.jpg, held at the National Portrait Gallery
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