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Nicolaus Heideloff|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London

Miseries of Human Life: While Deep in Study and Lost in Thought in the Complicated Profession of a Taylor and All on a Sudden Disturbed by the Shrieks of a Woman Crying Cucumbers

October 1807
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32 × 23.2 cm (12.6 × 9.1 in)

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