One of a pair of etchings, this one entitled 'The First Shilling Day - going out'. Depicts the crowd smiling and embracing outside the exhibition, a pile of shoes on the ground in the foreground and a man on the right putting on a shoe. Illustration from Henry Mayhew’s ‘The world’s show, 1851, or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs Sandboys and family’. George Cruikshank. (London: David Bogue, 1851.) One of a pair of etchings. 140x220mm 5 1/4x 8 ¾’’
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