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Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Rehearsal of a French Invasion as Performed before the Invalids at the Islands of St Marcou on the Morning of the 7th of May 1798

May 18, 1798
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
30.4 × 37.4 cm (12 × 14.7 in)

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