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A fashionable lady with her servant in the desert bumps into an elderly doctor and enquires whether the area is good for rheumatism. Colour photomechanical reproduction after L. Thackeray.

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A fashionable lady with her servant in the desert bumps into an elderly doctor and enquires whether the area is good for rheumatism. Colour photomechanical reproduction after L. Thackeray.