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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A Suggestion by the Charivari to Mr. Léon Faucher for Avoiding Telegraphic Blunders in the Future, plate 122 from Actualités

1851
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
27 × 22.1 cm (10.6 × 8.7 in)

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