| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| July 18, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Radcliffe Library, Oxford: interior showing scholars and classical statues. Line engraving by J. Le Keux after F. Mackenzie. |
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Frederick Mackenzie print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
| also in the bag: |
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Plum and bamboo Attributed to Hon'ami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637), 1615-1868 · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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Rear View of Seated Man Carlo Vimercati (Italian, 1660–1715), late 1600s? · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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A Jewish Nurse - Fez Forestier, Amedée (painter (artist)), Late 19th century to early 20th century (painted) · Wikimedia Commons |
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Cupid carrying a fowl accompanied by a dog, and another cupid playing a trumpet Maso Finiguerra, c. 1450 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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The Classic of Filial Piety Li Gonglin, ca. 1085 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Line |
| "When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl. Tu-whit, To-who'- A merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot." |
| Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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The Great John Robinson's 4 Ring Circus...Our General Foreign Agent Mr. G.N. Robinson purchasing...a drove of black & white llamas, 1900-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Quebec City, Canada |
| Quebec City is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459 and the Quebec City census metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. Lay low here. |
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