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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Two Grand Dukes Leaving for Sebastopol, plate 166 from Actualités

1855
Lithograph in black on white wove paper, with letterpress verso
21.8 × 26.9 cm (8.6 × 10.6 in)

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