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Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson

A White Sergeant giving the Word of Command: "Why don't you come to bed, you drunken sot?"

May 25, 1807
Hand-colored etching
22 × 32 cm (8.7 × 12.6 in)

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