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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

An Encounter in Open Water, plate eleven from Les Canotiers Parisiens

1843
Lithograph in black, with additions in pen and brown ink and caption in pen and brown ink, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
20.3 × 26.8 cm (8 × 10.6 in)

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