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A Hero of the Turf & his Agent
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Hand-colored etching
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Rogers Harris Brisbane Dick The Elisha Whittelsey Funds and Gift of John Sise by exchange 1958
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