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George Cruikshank - The Dead Cart (BM 1865,1111.2265)

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A watchman and his fellow in conversation, looking up at a quarantined house in Houndsditch, a man leading a plague cart to the left and houses beyond; after Cruikshank; illustration to Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year or Memorials of the Great Pestilence in London" (1835)

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George Cruikshank (1792–1878) English artist, caricaturist, and illustrator who, beginning his career with satirical political cartoons and later illustrating topical and children’s books, became one of the most prolific and popular masters of his art.

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1835
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George Cruikshank (1792–1878)

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