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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Ha! Dammmmmnit wife... how much funnn we had when we were eighteen.... no men no women..... just us people from Auvergne,” plate 5 from Vulgarités

1841
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
24.1 × 19.5 cm (9.5 × 7.7 in)

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