Destouches|Arnaud de Vresse|Honoré Daumier

–You take your pin-gun in your hand like this.... you fire... puff... this kills ten times more people than the old system... –Ah, yes papa, this is what one calls progress, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 8, 1866

August 8, 1866
Lithograph on newsprint
23.7 × 20.3 cm (9.3 × 8 in)

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