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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Friends of Peace - Result of a Speech By Coquerel. On leaving the ward of Saint Cécilia, a member of the peace congress decided to start general disarmament, plate 7 from Actualités

1849
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
26.5 × 19.6 cm (10.4 × 7.7 in)

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