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Engraving of a family breaking ice at a frozen pond beside a snowy thatched cottage, with a donkey and bare tree.

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An engraved print titled Breaking the Ice, published in London in 1798, shows a family outside a thatched cottage in winter. A man kneels at a frozen pond breaking the ice with a pail while a woman and a small child look on, and a donkey stands by a snow-dusted fence beneath a bare tree.

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