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In the right background is a sign post marked 'Avenue Des Champs-Élysées'.  Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  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Hand-coloured lithograph, France, 1870-1871.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1962</u>. 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