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[AUTOMATON] SKETCH OF A CHERUB BY AN AUTOMATON ARTIST. [London, ca. 1820]. Delicately rendered drawing of a cherub holding the reigns of a small chariot in one hand and a whip in the other, while perched on the vehicle with one foot; the carriage is drawn by two winged doves, and its wheels are supported on a pillow of clouds, surrounded by a double-ruled oval border. Said to have been sketched by an automaton artist at Weeks’ Mechanical Museum, the figure itself perhaps constructed by Maillardet, and previously in Haddock’s show of Androides. 5¼ × 6" The first such drawing we have encountered.