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George Cruikshank

"My Wife is a Woman of Mind" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1847, printed c. 1880
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
21.4 × 33.8 cm (8.4 × 13.3 in)

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