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Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson

Dying for Love, or Captain Careless, Shot Flying by a Girl of Fifteen who Unexpectedly Popped Her Head out of a Casement

1810–11
Hand-colored etching
24.3 × 35 cm (9.6 × 13.8 in)

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