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Lord John Russell|Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey|Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg|Ducôte and Stephen|Thomas McLean|Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle|Daniel O'Connell|John Doyle

An Extradordinary Animal. Neither an Opossum nor a Kangaroo but having something of both

March 26, 1835
Lithograph
43.9 × 30 cm (17.3 × 11.8 in)

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