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Le Jeu Ne Vaut Pas La Chandelle (The Game is Not Worth a Candle)
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Wood engraving
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Thomas Nast Jr. Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast 1933
Title: Le Jeu Ne Vaut Pas La Chandelle (The Game is Not Worth a Candle)
Description:
Wood engraving.
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