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To close off (a fox earth) with the fox inside on the morning of a hunt.

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  • Measuring 2.90 by 3.77 metres, the drawing includes studies of a female figure with children, a seated male figure and a podgy winged baby, or 'putto', as well as...
  • Beside her, a putto sits on a stone-cut wheel, his back to an unidentifiable stone monument, from which hangs a balance, an hourglass, and a bell.
  • At lower left, one putto sits wedged between a sheaf of wheat that rests upon a pile of game, and grape vines surmounted by a cluster of hanging fowl.
  • On reflection, I would like to add that my point was pointed to the need to first designate blight, accrue the property, and then see what purpose the assembled plot could be...
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