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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- I want to go on this ship with you at once, Papa, my nanny said that the deluge will come again, and the only ones who will be saved, will be the animals on the ark of Mr. Leviathan!,” plate 484 from Actualités

1858
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20.6 × 26.2 cm (8.1 × 10.3 in)

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