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Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault

Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man!... plate 2 from Various Subjects Drawn from Life on Stone

1821
Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
31.5 × 37.5 cm (12.4 × 14.8 in)

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