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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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

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Date
1843
Medium
Lithograph in black, with additions in pen and brown ink and caption in pen and brown ink, on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
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