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What It Must Come To, At Last, if the Ladies Go On Blowing Themselves Out as They Do! from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1850, printed c. 1880
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
20.9 × 33.4 cm (8.2 × 13.1 in)

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