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The Apostate Jack Robinson, The Political Rat Catcher–N.B. Rats Taken Alive!

Thomas Rowlandson

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
March 1, 1784
Hand-colored etching
23.0 x 34.6cm
59.533.42
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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