– You take your pin-gun in your hand like this... you fire... puff... this kills ten times more people than the old system... – Ah, yes papa, this is what one calls progress, from "News of the Day"

– You take your pin-gun in your hand like this... you fire... puff... this kills ten times more people than the old system... – Ah, yes papa, this is what one calls progress, from "News of the Day"

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Arnaud de Vresse

1866 Print

36.12.120

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