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A boy lies smoking a pipe, whilst a man and woman stand arguing. Another man has been wedged into the ventilation hole.  Print from a set of caricatures, broadsheets and illustrations in ten volumes.  Each volume is half-bound in red leather, gold tooled and stamped with imperial emblems, title etc.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Colomb, B. 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Il parait qu'on jette du pétrole dans les Caves, ma foi! n'ayant den de mieux / sous la main, nous nous sommes servis de Mr. votre époux boucher le soupirail.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Lettered with caption"}],"objectHistory":"This lithograph is from the set entitled 'Paris Dans Les Caves', a series of 39 plates portraying life below ground in Paris during the two sieges.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'Ciel! mon mari........!'  Satirical illustration by B. Colomb ('Moloch') depicting a scene in a Parisian 'cave'.  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