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Credit: W. W. Denslow
Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle, and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. Though not explicitly described, he is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg. This illustration was the cover of a 1904 telling of the story.