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Napoléon Bonaparte|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

A Rare Acquisition to the Royal Menagerie

July 28, 1815
Hand-colored etching
24.8 × 34.9 cm (9.8 × 13.7 in)

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