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George Cruikshank

January – "Hard Frost" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1836, printed c. 1880
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
20.4 × 32.2 cm (8 × 12.7 in)

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