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Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier|Destouches

Gentlemen in workhouse clothes: If the rich are disguising themselves as poor, one might get the idea that the poor might transform themselves into the rich, from 'News of the day'

March 7, 1866
Lithograph; second state of two, proof (Delteil)
24 × 22.3 cm (9.4 × 8.8 in)

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