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George Cruikshank

Scarcity of Domestic Services, or Every Family Their Own Cooks!!! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1853, printed c. 1880
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
21.3 × 33.8 cm (8.4 × 13.3 in)

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