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| your personal art thief |
| August 26, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| A Seaman's Wife's Reckoning |
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Thomas Rowlandson, July 15, 1812 Hand-colored etching · lifted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| also in the bag: |
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Striped Brocade with Flowering Plants Unknown, 1700s or 1800s · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Kulikov Torches in the Garden 1906 Ivan Kulikov · Wikimedia Commons |
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De zieke vrouw Jan Havicksz. Steen, ca. 1663 - ca. 1666 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Water plants with blue flowers Unknown, 1615-1868 · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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View of the Mill and Bridge on the Noordwest Buitensingel in The Hague Jacob Maris, 1873 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| The Line |
| "I’ll say that he is wise who loveth well, And that the soul most free is that most bound In thraldom to the ancient tyrant Love." |
| Don Quixote, Cervantes |
| From the Vault |
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The Moving Picture Cowboy Tom Mix doing stunts. The way he told the story, and what he really did, 1914-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Trieste, Italy |
| Trieste is a city and seaport in northeast Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the regional decentralization entity of Trieste. Lay low here. |
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