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431:A beginner’s guide to Daniel Maclise
400:Daniel Maclise: The Waterloo Cartoon
303:Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau
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374:The Death of Nelson
366:Art Union of London
324:for the Prussians.
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88:The Death of Nelson
313:Raft of the Medusa
308:Théodore Géricault
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359:last rites
351:cantinière
347:vivandière
337:Lord Byron
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