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My friend, why are you up in the middle of the night, are you ill?, from 'The spiritualists,' published in Le Charivari, November 7, 1865

  • My friend, why are you up in the middle of the night, are you ill? …

  • Shhh … I was called by my table and when it stamps with the foot, it means it is impatient

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962

November 7, 1865
Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (delteil)
22.7 x 20.3cm
62.650.482
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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