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“I'm guarding city hall” by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

“I'm guarding city hall”

“I'm guarding city hall”

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1822

Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 22.9 × 18.6 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Sheet: 33.3 × 25.5 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)
Genre: lithograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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