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Columbus breaking the egg; he is surrounded by five men around a dinner table with a plate of eels before them. Etching by William Hogarth.
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Columbus breaking the egg; he is surrounded by five men around a dinner table with a plate of eels before them. Etching by William Hogarth.

William Hogarth · 1753

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Design'd & etch'd by Wm. Hogarth Decem. 1. 1753

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