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Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin

The Escape of M. de Belle-Isle, Prisoner in the Attakapas, plate four from Les Nouveaux Voyages aux Indes Occidentales

1767
Etching on cream laid paper
12.1 × 7.5 cm (4.8 × 3 in)

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