CRITIC'S CHOICE
The dapper gentleman pictured above is Theodore Jacobsen, and half-unrolled in his right hand is a drawing of the west front of London's Foundling Hospital on the fringe of Bloomsbury - built in 1752, demolished in 1928, and his best-known work.
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