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Tourists often concluded their trip to Rome by commissioning a portrait. Her drawings include portraits of the artists Nathaniel Dance (1735-1811), Benjamin West (1738-1820), and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). The sketchbook also contains a series of landscape studies, preparatory studies for prints, drapery studies and drawings of hands and arms, capturing Kauffman’s ongoing experiments with light and gesture as she honed her skills. In 1800, the drawings entered the collection of G. Vallardi, a print dealer in Milan who was an active patron of neoclassical art. Vallardi pasted the various sized drawings into a bound volume. His collector’s mark appears on almost all the drawings except for numbers 92, 94, 103, 108, 130-136, which are unlikely to be by Kauffman.","physicalDescription":"140 pages of buff paper with gilt edges, with 137 drawings on laid paper pasted in, bound in blue cloth, 1762-66. Pencil, black and coloured chalks, ink. 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