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A Scientist Trying to Befriend his Son with a Great Kangaroo from Central America, plate 3 from La Société D'acclimatation
Honoré Victorin Daumier
- Date
- 1858
- Medium
- Lithograph in black, with fawn tint stone on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
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