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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- So, Gringalet from Paris!.... you will dance twice with my Catherine ...... try again now to make sheep's eyes at her,” plate 27 from Pastorales

published October 28, 1845
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)
24.4 × 21.9 cm (9.6 × 8.6 in)

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