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| your personal art thief |
| August 27, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Relief with Tiger from a Funerary Stove Model |
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Unknown, 202 BCE–220 CE earthenware with relief decoration · lifted from The Cleveland Museum of Art |
| also in the bag: |
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Possibly Mrs. William Sheldon Asahel Powers, c. 1831 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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De Gele Rijders George Hendrik Breitner, 1885 - 1886 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Etching plate: The Little Pool James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), 1861 · the National Museum of Asian Art |
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Spindle Whorl Unknown, 700s - 900s · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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King George III of England Unknown, 1738-1792 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
| The Line |
| "What fear I then, rather what know to feare Under this ignorance of Good and Evil, Of God or Death, of Law or Penaltie?" |
| Paradise Lost, John Milton |
| From the Vault |
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Sells Floto circus M'lle Beeson, a marvelous high wire Venus /, 1921-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Samarkand, Uzbekistan |
| Samarkand is a major city located in southeastern Uzbekistan and is among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. With a population of 882,000 inhabitants in 2026, it is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan after Tashkent. Lay low here. |
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