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James Gillray|Hannah Humphrey

A Plumper for Paul!–or–the Little Taylor Done Over; vide–the terrible Effects of provoking a Red-hot Shot from the Broad-Bottom'd-Whig-Battery

March 13, 1807
Hand-colored etching
24.4 × 34.4 cm (9.6 × 13.5 in)

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