A Banker, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

A Banker, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Charles Tamisier, Honoré de Balzac

1832 - 1852 Print

59.500.592(61)

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