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“- Just look at that! the train that's about to pass is lucky to have a narrow escape.... the whole affair would have blown up if I hadn't noticed in time... - What is it then, what is it? - Why, it's obvious, a needle has been placed right on the rail... luckily I saw it in just in time!,” plate 1 from Les Chemins De Fer
Honoré-Victorin Daumier1843
- Attribution
- Honoré Victorin Daumier French, 1808-1879
- Medium
- Lithograph in black on white wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 20.7 × 26.5 cm (8 3/16 × 10 7/16 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 35.5 cm (10 9/16 × 14 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection
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Source rights statement: Public domain
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