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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Marius At Carthage. Soldier, say to the senate that in my noble poverty I have taken for a chair a ruin And if I were in Sylla I would not be sitting here. (Pun attributed to M. Cousin), plate 35 from Histoire Ancienne

published November 13, 1842
Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with text added in another hand and letterpress verso
24.6 × 19.6 cm (9.7 × 7.7 in)

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