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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Monsieur Arthur: “- Oh Pamela! I am burning with love for you!” The husband herbalist: “- A mallow... of the family of Malvaceae... a sedative... I don't believe my friend Arthur has this specimen in the herbarium he asked me to build for him,” plate 2 from Croquades

1851
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
24.5 × 20.8 cm (9.6 × 8.2 in)

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