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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Waiter in Black Suits. Funeral of the tip box, plate 2 from Croquis Parisiens

published April 27, 1855
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
20.2 × 26.8 cm (8 × 10.6 in)

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