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Joseph Swain|James McNeill Whistler|Chiswick Press|Walter Thornbury

The Morning Before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (for "Once a Week," August 16, 1862)

1862
Wood engraving; proof
15 × 10 cm (5.9 × 3.9 in)

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