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Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt|Empress Marie Louise of France|Thomas Rowlandson|Napoléon Bonaparte|Thomas Tegg

Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant

April 14, 1811
Hand-colored etching
34.6 × 24.6 cm (13.6 × 9.7 in)

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