| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| August 5, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| John Bull making hop-tea in front of a hop grower and his workers; representing adulteration of beer by brewers. Chromolithograph by T. Merry, 1890, after himself. |
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Merry, Tom, 1852-1902., 11 October 1890 print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
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Frank Hamilton Cushing Thomas Eakins, American, b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1844–1916, (1895) · the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
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O Uma Jirushi 2 Unknown · Wikimedia Commons |
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Church of Santa Maria della Febbre, Rome Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 1629 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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Kitty Fisher Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916, 1906 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the... Habiballah of Sava, ca. 1600 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Line |
| "O, heaven be judge how I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! What dangerous action, stood it next to death, Would I not undergo for one calm look?" |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare |
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Carl Hagenbeck's East India exposition... The Hindoo colony in all its native splendor... An entire village... 100 - natives - 100, 1906-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Cartagena, Colombia |
| Cartagena, known since the imperial era as Cartagena de Indias, is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route to the West Indies provides it with important historical value for world exploration and preservation of heritage from the great commercial maritime routes. Lay low here. |
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