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For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear
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For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear
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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
For all the world, I was led like a dancing bear
Alternate Title(s)
The Hostage
Oil on canvas
1911
47 1/4 × 38 1/4 in. (120 × 97.2 cm)
92.16.2
Bequest of Gertrude Haskell Britton, 1992
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