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George Cruikshank

May – "All A Growing!" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top left)

1838, printed c. 1880
Four steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
20.2 × 33 cm (8 × 13 in)

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