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Moorish horseman in profile facing left, a black slave holding a fur at left, another horseman to right in the background, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)

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Etching; reverse copy, 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres polonais et hongrois)
'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres polonais et hongrois), Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Margaret Scolari Barr 1986
Title: Moorish horseman in profile facing left, a black slave holding a fur at left, another horseman to right in the background, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)
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Etching; reverse copy, 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres polonais et hongrois).

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