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Faculty Scholarship
July 2012
'Not unworthy of his hand': Crossing Borders in
Benjamin West's A Drayman Drinking
Lauren K. Lessing
Colby College, [email protected]
Terri Sabatos
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Lessing, Lauren K. and Sabatos, Terri, "'Not unworthy of his hand': Crossing Borders in Benjamin West's A Drayman Drinking" (2012).
Faculty Scholarship. Paper 46.
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