“The Thriving City of Eden as It Appeared in Fact”, illustration by Phiz for Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit (1859).
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The Thriving City of Eden as It Appeared in Fact
Artist
Date
1859
From
Martin Chuzzlewit
