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Thomas Tegg|Thomas Rowlandson|Prince Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany

The York Magician Transforming a Foot-Boy to a Captain

February 25, 1809
Hand-colored etching
24.4 × 34.5 cm (9.6 × 13.6 in)

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