Let's go away from here, guide, let's leave. I must have been out of my mind to leave Paris and travel 300 miles, just to stand over an abyss of 400 feet in the Pyrenees. Let's go away from here, guide, as fast as possible!

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Let's go away from here, guide, let's leave. I must have been out of my mind to leave Paris and travel 300 miles, just to stand over an abyss of 400 feet in the Pyrenees. Let's go away from here, guide, as fast as possible!
Image Not Available for Let's go away from here, guide, let's leave. I must have been out of my mind to leave Paris and travel 300 miles, just to stand over an abyss of 400 feet in the Pyrenees. Let's go away from here, guide, as fast as possible!

Let's go away from here, guide, let's leave. I must have been out of my mind to leave Paris and travel 300 miles, just to stand over an abyss of 400 feet in the Pyrenees. Let's go away from here, guide, as fast as possible!

PortfolioPlate 24 from the series "Les Bons Bourgeois"
Date1846
MediumCrayon lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 260 × 228 mm. (10 1/4 × 9 in.)
Credit LineNelson and Juanita Greif Gutman Collection
Object number1963.313.10
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Last Updated1/11/24
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