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'Tis not Antiques Alone can Please the Eye, or Tastes Differ

Thomas Rowlandson

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
November 20, 1786
Hand-colored etching
15.6 x 21.6cm
59.533.203
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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