Some of the drolleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Some of the drolleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 · [July 1, 1851]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

Numerous images of animals engaged in human activities including weasels writing, caring for their children, sitting at tea and dueling. Moles are digging with spades, rabbit schoolchildren, a frog barber shaving another as well as Reynard the Fox, in various situations.

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