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Fortune-Hunting by James Gillray — VisualArtsDB

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Fortune-Hunting

Fortune-Hunting

Fortune-Hunting

1804

Medium: Hand-colored etching on paper
Dimensions: Image: 24.7 × 37.5 cm (9 3/4 × 14 13/16 in.); Plate: 25.7 × 38.2 cm (10 1/8 × 15 1/16 in.); Sheet: 30 × 44 cm (11 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
Genre: Etching
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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