"Mauger sharpening his Axe" — Cruikshank's thirty-fifth illustration for Ainsworth's The Tower of London (1840) (original) (raw)

Mauger sharpening his Axe

George Cruikshank

May 1840

Steel-engraving

12.3 cm high by 10 cm wide, framed

Facing p. 156 in Book II, Ch. VII of William Harrison Ainsworth's The Tower of London.

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