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Workmen prepare the scaffold for an execution at night with one workman pointing at a ghostly figure dressed in black rushing past the block. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
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Workmen prepare the scaffold for an execution at night with one workman pointing at a ghostly figure dressed in black rushing past the block. Etching by G. Cruikshank.

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Lettering: The night before the execution. George Cruikshank

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