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Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Richard Alexander Oswald (1771-1841), Liberal politician: MP for Ayrshire

Portraits in Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

The House of Commons, 1833

by Sir George Hayter
1833-1843
NPG 54

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