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Joseph Swain|James McNeill Whistler|Walter Thornbury

The Morning before the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (from "Once a Week")

August 16, 1862
Wood engraving; proof
16.8 × 13 cm (6.6 × 5.1 in)

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