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George Cruikshank

Change for a Sovereign - an Anticipated Pantomime from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1844, printed c. 1880
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
21 × 32.7 cm (8.3 × 12.9 in)

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