Wretched lettuce... I am spending entire days watering it and it is still thirsty, from "The joys of country life"

Wretched lettuce... I am spending entire days watering it and it is still thirsty, from "The joys of country life"

Honoré Daumier

1865 Print

36.12.230

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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