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Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores

The Prospect Before Us, Humanely Inscrib'd to all those Professors of Music and Dancing Whom the Cap May Fit

January 13, 1791
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35.3 × 51.4 cm (13.9 × 20.2 in)

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