| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| September 28, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Common figwort (Scrophularia nodosa): flowering stem, root and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1805. |
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James Sowerby, 1 January 1805 print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
| also in the bag: |
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William John Little. Lithograph by F. Schapper, 1854. Schapper, Friedrich, approximately 1810-after 1851., 1854 · Wellcome Collection, London |
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Child Reading H. Lyman Saÿen, born Philadelphia, PA 1875-died Philadelphia, PA 1918, 1915-1918 · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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Sankt Hieronymus og Sankt Augustin Giambattista Moroni, 1540-1578 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
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Jan Vos (1610-67) Arnoud van Halen, 1700 - 1732 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Richard Braatz with his four legged acrobats and pantomimists 2 Unknown author Unknown author, 1900s · Wikimedia Commons |
| The Line |
| "The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence." |
| The Metamorphosis, Kafka |
| From the Vault |
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Russkiĭ gostinet︠s︡, 1904 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Sitka, Alaska |
| Sitka is a unified city-borough in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Alaska. Lay low here. |
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