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The Three Witches from Shakespeare's Macbeth by Daniel Gardner (1775)

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Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne – the most famous political hostesses and society beauties of their day – are shown gathered around the witches’ cauldron alongside their friend, the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer.
1775
 
In paintings, farm women always look so unhappy.
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That net collar in the first one --- those were real popular Elizabethan times.
 

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