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Thomas Rowlandson|S. W. Fores|Samuel Alken|Henry Wigstead

Bookseller and Author

[September 25, 1784], reissued July 1, 1808
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
32.7 × 38.8 cm (12.9 × 15.3 in)

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