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A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.

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A man pasting posters on to a wall: one poster has blown away and covered a man who was walking past, knocking his hat to the ground. Lithograph after R. Seymour, 1834.