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Henry Louis Stephens|Rosenthal|Samuel Robinson

The Hen That Hatched This Egg (Henry L. Stephens): Title Page, The Comic Natural History of the Human Race

1851
Color lithograph with watercolor and gum
28.6 × 18.4 cm (11.3 × 7.2 in)

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