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Aubert et Cie|Honoré Daumier

The Hired Clapper, plate 19 from "Artists and Bonvivants of Paris," published in Le Charivari

February 13, 1842
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of three
38 × 26 cm (15 × 10.2 in)

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