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Thomas McLean|Ducôte and Stephen|John Doyle|William IV, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Henry Peter Brougham

The Fall of Icarus

November 29, 1834
Lithograph
43.7 × 29.7 cm (17.2 × 11.7 in)

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