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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Sire! Lisbon has been captured. - aaaah!!... and I dreamt that I had fought courageously!,” plate 304

1833
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
25.4 × 23.3 cm (10 × 9.2 in)

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