A very well put insect and beautiful dancer, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

A very well put insect and beautiful dancer, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

1832 - 1852 Print

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