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George Cruikshank

November - Law-Life Assurance from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1840, printed c. 1880
Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
9.5 × 15.3 cm (3.7 × 6 in)

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