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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Legislative belly. View of the ministerial benches in the Improstituted House of 1834, plate 18 from L’Association mensuelle

1834
Lithograph in black on grayish China paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
27.8 × 42.9 cm (10.9 × 16.9 in)

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