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A Delicate Task, plate 37 from Revue Caricaturale by Honoré-Victorin Daumier — VisualArtsDB

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A Delicate Task, plate 37 from Revue Caricaturale

A Delicate Task, plate 37 from Revue Caricaturale

A Delicate Task, plate 37 from Revue Caricaturale

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

1843

Medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 24.2 × 20.2 cm (9 9/16 × 8 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 27.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Genre: Lithograph
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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