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Diderot (One word is 1,000 dollars)

PortfolioFrom the portfolio "Evolution Revolution Resolution"
Date1989
MediumColor etching and lithograph
DimensionsSheet (each): 758 x 567 mm. (29 13/16 x 22 5/16 in.)
Plate: 702 x 524 mm. (27 5/8 x 20 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object number2008.4.1
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Marriage of convenience. - Eh! What? Eloa!!... You've deceived me!... You're not your father's daughter... His title of count is just a fairy tale... Your castles are an illusion, your enormous fortune an enormous joke!!... O tempora o mores!!... - In other words I've been taken for a right mug!
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