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inscriptions
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Until now, this left historians to rely on inscriptions from 18th-century copies of Holbein originals to identify the drawings’ sitters.—
Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
4 May 2026 -
The inscriptions were originally inlaid with gold, which was looted following the British annexation of Myanmar in 1885 and replaced with black ink beginning in 1892.—
Ethan Teekah,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
1 May 2026
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