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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Well, fancy that! I thought that we had just discovered a deserted island or at least a country inhabited by cannibals., plate two from Les Canotiers Parisiens

1843
Lithograph in black, with additions in pen and brown ink and caption in pen and brown ink, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
20.5 × 25.6 cm (8.1 × 10.1 in)

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