The Proprietor, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

The Proprietor, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

1832 - 1852 Print

59.500.592(49)

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