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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

View of the Grand Hall, plate 1 from Souvenirdu Grand Festival des Orphéonistes

1859
Lithograph on buff wove paper, with letter press, verso
21.7 × 27.3 cm (8.5 × 10.7 in)

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