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Anonymous|Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann|Jacques Gagné

The Human Life by Bendemann, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

June 1851
Wood engraving on newsprint
21.8 × 15.1 cm (8.6 × 5.9 in)

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