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  • Two Irishmen in Brighton open a smuggled barrel of what they think is whiskey with a red-hot poker, but it contains gunpowder and explodes. Etching after Cruikshank.
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    Two Irishmen in Brighton open a smuggled barrel of what they think is whiskey with a red-hot poker, but it contains gunpowder and explodes. Etching after Cruikshank.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: Jany. 12. 1808 | Reference: 31531i
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