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Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

The Dessert: My eldest is full of spirit!...he is very advanced for his age...I intend to make a lawyer of him.

1837
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
13.9 × 18.9 cm (5.5 × 7.4 in)

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