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Messengers

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  • Four messengers are sitting on a wall having a discussion at cross-purposes. Lithograph by H. Daumier.
  • Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.
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    Illustration of a messenger boy with his bicycle.

    | Date: [between 1920 and 1925?] | Reference: 3289309i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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    Four messengers are sitting on a wall having a discussion at cross-purposes. Lithograph by H. Daumier.

    Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879. | Date: 1849 | Reference: 32838i
    Part of: Croquis du jour
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    Smokers in a Turkish coffee house listen eagerly to news brought by a courier. Lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, 1840.

    Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841. | Date: 1843 | Reference: 25645i
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    Russo-Japanese War: a confused battlefield scene with Japanese cavalry and foot soldiers carrying the wounded. Wash drawing by T. Ishikawa, c. 1904.

    Ishikawa, Toraji, active 1900. | Date: 1904 | Reference: 23881i
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