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Auguste Charles Pugin|Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson|John Bluck

Water Engine, Cold-Bath Field's Prison

1808
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
30.5 × 24.1 cm (12 × 9.5 in)

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