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- ↑ "Foreword" by Jessica Rutherford in Wendy Wassyng Roworth (Ed.) (1992) Angelica Kauffman: A continental artist in Georgian England. London: Reaktion Books. p. 7. ISBN 0948462418
- ↑ Painting for Profit and Pleasure: Angelica Kauffman and the Art Business in Rome. Wendy Wassyng Roworth. Project Muse. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ↑ Documenting Angelica Kauffman's Life and Art. Wendy Wassyng Roworth. Project Muse. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
- ↑ Dr Melissa Calaresu, Review of Italy’s Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
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