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Henry Louis Stephens|Rosenthal|Samuel Robinson

Hum-Bug (P. T. Barnum), from the Comic Natural History of the Human Race

1851
Color lithograph with watercolor and gum
34.3 × 22.4 cm (13.5 × 8.8 in)

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