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Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt|Napoléon Bonaparte|Thomas Tegg|Empress Marie Louise of France|Thomas Rowlandson

Nursing the Spawn of a Tyrant

April 14, 1811
Hand-colored etching
35 × 24.9 cm (13.8 × 9.8 in)

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