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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A Practical Joke. "Driver! Driver! Do you still have two seats in the rabbit section??,” plate 24 from Les Baigneurs

1842
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on white wove paper, with letterpress verso
21.3 × 25.7 cm (8.4 × 10.1 in)

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