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The Peace Society, or a New "Field of Action" for the Military - in "The Good Time Coming" from George Cruikshank's Steel Etchings to The Comic Almanacks: 1835-1853 (top)

1852, printed c. 1880
Two steel etchings in black on cream India paper, laid down on off-white card (chine collé)
20 × 16.3 cm (7.9 × 6.4 in)

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