The Masquerade in Ranelagh gardens
George Cruikshank
June 1842
Steel-engraving
12.7 cm high by 10 cm wide, framed
Eleventh illustration for the volume edition of William Harrison Ainsworth's The Miser's Daughter: A Tale, Book Two, Chapter 8, facing page 176 (first plate for the June 1842 number in Ainsworth's Magazine).
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Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham.