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George Du Maurier

Our Drawing-room Pets–with "Kangaroo Jim, the Champion Australian boomerang-thrower," for "Punch," July 2, 1887

1887
Pen and brown ink
21.2 × 22.8 cm (8.3 × 9 in)

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