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Vois-tu, mon vieux..... relativement à l'Égypte on ne pourra jamais percer l'Isthme de Suez.... si j'étais à la place de Mr. de Lesspes, je sais bien ce que je ferais!....., from Naïvetés, published in Le Charivari, November 23, 1859

Destouches|Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier

November 23, 1859

Attribution

| | Destouches|Aaron Martinet|Honoré Daumier | | Paris|French, 1762–1841|French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois

Medium

Lithograph on newsprint; third state of three (Delteil)

Physical dimensions

Image: 9 3/16 in. × 8 in. (23.3 × 20.3 cm) Sheet: 11 7/16 × 9 3/4 in. (29.1 × 24.8 cm)

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962