Thomas Rowlandson|Oliver Goldsmith|Rudolph Ackermann, London|William Clowes

The Gross of Green Spectacles, from "The Vicar of Wakefield"

May 1817
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
14.3 × 23.5 cm (5.6 × 9.3 in)

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