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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK




And with one more little Hibernian specimen we must bid farewell to Ireland altogether, having many other pictures in our gallery that deserve particular notice; and we give this, not so much for the comical look of poor Teague, who has been pursued and beaten by the witch's stick, but in order to point the singular neatness of the workmanship, and the pretty, fanciful, little glimpse of landscape that the artist has introduced in the back-ground.

Illustration by George Cruikshank




Mr Cruikshank has a fine eye for such homely landscapes, and renders them with great delicacy and taste. Old villages, farm- yards, groups of stacks, queer chimneys, churches, gable- ended

Illustration by George Cruikshank


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