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Alms House Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
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Color lithograph with watercolor and gum, The Comic Natural History of the Human Race
The Comic Natural History of the Human Race, Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Lincoln Kirstein 1964
Title: Alms House Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"
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Color lithograph with watercolor and gum, The Comic Natural History of the Human Race.
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