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Nocturnal scene on the river Thames: men in rescue boats try to grab a child from a drowning man. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1839.
Wellcome Collection

Nocturnal scene on the river Thames: men in rescue boats try to grab a child from a drowning man. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1839.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/63272 · 1839

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Murder on the Thames. George Cruikshank

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