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The Sailor's Return

Thomas Rowlandson
Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
October 10, 1799
Hand-colored etching
25.0 x 18.5cm
59.533.614
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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