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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Great Times for Small Fry..., plate 7 from Types Parisiens

published May 29, 1841
Lithograph, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text below and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)
16.8 × 23.6 cm (6.6 × 9.3 in)

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