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Thomas Rowlandson|Francis Wheatley

Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on Rocks and Smoking a Pipe, Next to a Standing Young Woman, with a Second Woman Behind

1786
Etching
34.9 × 25 cm (13.7 × 9.8 in)

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