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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The New Paris. How fortunate for those in a hurry that the avenues have been widened!!!, plate 301 from Souvenirs d’artistes

1862
Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
26.2 × 22.4 cm (10.3 × 8.8 in)

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