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Probable Effects of Over Female Emigration, or Importing the Fair Sex from the Savage Islands in Consequence of Exporting All Our Own to Australia!!!!! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853

1851, printed c. 1880
Steel etching in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
16.2 × 41.2 cm (6.4 × 16.2 in)

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