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*The Water-Seller by Velazquez; oil on canvas; 106x82cm (42x32in); 1619[ce]. Wellington museum, London.

(See the colour repro[duction] in Encyclopaedia of Visual Art [706]: there is an adult male face in the background, drinking)

[– Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:706 as photocopied in ms; replaced in ts by Wikipedia illustration]

**This looks like a symbolic near-end-of-cycle / transformation scene.

(I was going to stop the photocopier here)

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