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"This room's too dirty, take a moment to sweep it" by Honoré Daumier — VisualArtsDB

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"This room's too dirty, take a moment to sweep it"

"This room's too dirty, take a moment to sweep it"

"This room's too dirty, take a moment to sweep it"

Honoré Daumier

1834

Medium: Wood engraving
Genre: Print
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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french

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“- Sir, I would like to subscribe for the earth quake at Batignolles..... here are two Francs.... but put in properly my name and address in your newspaper, Rigolard - Philanthropist, stationer at rue St. Honoré 345, offering clocks and statues by Dantan, Bohemian glass, English riding sticks, German chemical matches and generally everything that does not really concern this matter,” plate 6 from Les Philantropes Du Jour

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Voila... mon pot de fleurs... va avoir du soleil...

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Well, fancy that! I thought that we had just discovered a deserted island or at least a country inhabited by cannibals., plate two from Les Canotiers Parisiens

Well, fancy that! I thought that we had just discovered a deserted island or at least a country inhabited by cannibals., plate two from Les Canotiers Parisiens

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