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Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores

The Cart Horse (from The Life of a Racehourse, or The High-Mettled Racer)

July 20, 1789
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
29.6 × 39.4 cm (11.7 × 15.5 in)

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