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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Damn country! I only shoot sparrows.... and just females... and this ingenious guard insisted the place is full of rabbits,” plate 5 from La Chasse

1843
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
24.6 × 20.2 cm (9.7 × 8 in)

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