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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“- Oh, my friend... I am afraid of these people there. - And rightly so... they are quite vicious, they beat their women and make them have black children!,” plate 101 from Actualités

1859
Lithograph in black on buff wove paper
24.3 × 22.7 cm (9.6 × 8.9 in)

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