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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- It's just because he's your friend, and because he has been introduced to me by you that I will let him subscribe to the last 20 shares of my colossal newspaper the EUROPEAN.... it will be a gold mine, and one day, he will thank you properly for it,” plate 7 from Les Amis

1845
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
23.7 × 18.9 cm (9.3 × 7.4 in)

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