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The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

Water carriers in Venice fill up their buckets at a well. Coloured process print by Drouart after Rouargue brothers.

Christ heals a man with dropsy while the Pharisees and lawyers criticise him for healing on a Sunday; Pharisees feast in the background; children play with a donkey on the right. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

Virginie giving a bowl of food to a starving black slave woman who has fled from her master. Engraving by E. Rouargue, 1824, after A. Desenne.

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The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.

Virginie giving a bowl of food to a starving black slave woman who has fled from her master. Engraving by E. Rouargue, 1824, after A. Desenne.

Water carriers in Venice fill up their buckets at a well. Coloured process print by Drouart after Rouargue brothers.

Christ heals a man with dropsy while the Pharisees and lawyers criticise him for healing on a Sunday; Pharisees feast in the background; children play with a donkey on the right. Engraving by E. Rouargue.