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23 December 2020

George Cruikshank did a series of Christmas drawings during the 1840s, they can all be found on Spitalfields Life here. This is Christmas Eve. (The details are interesting and some have not changed at all eg the fireplace and the mirror over the mantelpiece. The fire is obviously blazingly hot, which is why there is a fire screen.)

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