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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

“Brigand of a may-bug... it's you who devours all my property. You shall perish through my hand!,” plate 32 from Pastorales

1845
Lithograph in black on white wove paper
26.3 × 21.8 cm (10.4 × 8.6 in)

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