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“- I actually thought a crocodile soup would taste better than that,” plate 7 from La Sopciété D'acclimatation
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream wove paper, with letterpress verso
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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