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Preparing for Supper

Thomas Rowlandson
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
October 22, 1789
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
20.6 x 25.2cm
59.533.2033
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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