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The Hero's Return
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Hand-colored etching
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent in memory of John Osborne Sargent 1924
George Cruikshank (Artist)
Hannah Humphrey (Publisher)
Napoléon Bonaparte (Subject)
Pauline Bonaparte (Subject)
Princess Louise-Élisabeth of France (Subject)
Élisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany and Princess of Lucca and Piombino (Subject)
Caroline Bonaparte (Subject)
Napoléon II, King of Rome and Duke of Reichstadt (Subject)
Roustam Raza (Subject)
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