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A Good Boy
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A Good Boy

Date1786
MediumMezzotint
DimensionsPlate: 262 × 219 mm. (10 5/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGarrett Collection
Object number1946.112.8575
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
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Yes! My dear, it has been more than three weeks that no food entered this good man’s body!… - I prepared a good cabbage soup with bacon and some potatoes, that he loves so much. This will give him some strength. If you'd follow the diet the doctors gave him, he would soon die of hunger…
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1837
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