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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

View of the grand hall. Map, height and view from front of the conductor. Grand alliance between telegraph and music, plate 1 from Souvenir Du Grand Festival Des Orphéonistes

1859
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
20.8 × 26.5 cm (8.2 × 10.4 in)

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