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George Murgatroyd Woodward|Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson

We Fly By Night, Or The Free Booters Intercepted

August 27, 1808
Hand-colored etching
26.2 × 38.4 cm (10.3 × 15.1 in)

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