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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Monsieur Babinet decides to personally shut down the sun in order for his predictions to be fulfilled, plate 386 from Actualités

1857
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
21.3 × 26.9 cm (8.4 × 10.6 in)

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