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The painting is coming to auction for the first time in two centuries.

A painting thought to be the earliest likeness of Gullivers Travels author Jonathan Swift is to be sold in an online auction.

A painting thought to be the earliest likeness of Gulliver’s Travels author Jonathan Swift is to be sold in an online auction. Swift is believed to be onl...

A rare 18th century dolls house has sold at auction for more than double its estimated price.

A rare surviving mid-18th century doll’s house is to go under the hammer live and online from Lyon & Turnbull’s Edinburgh showroom this week.

A rare surviving mid-18th century doll’s house is to go under the hammer live and online from Lyon & Turnbull’s Edinburgh showroom.

It is a world in miniature which captures what the inside of an 18th century townhouse might have looked like.

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