DETAILS
- Artist
- Robert Seymour
- Date
- 1829
- Medium
- Hand-colored lithograph
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 9/16 in. (25.7 x 37 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971
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