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Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London|George Murgatroyd Woodward

Desire (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

February 21, 1800
Etching, printed in brown ink
27.9 × 22.2 cm (11 × 8.7 in)

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