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English: Title page with illustration from the 26-page pamphlet "Pollice Verso": To the Lovers of Truth in Classic Art, This is Most Respectfully Addressed published in Paris in 1879, reprinting evidence for and against the accuracy of the use of the thumbs-down gesture by spectators in the ancient Roman Colosseum in the painting Pollice Verso (1872) by Jean-Léon Gérôme, including a letter dated 8 December, 1878 from Gérôme himself.
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Title page with illustration from the 26-page pamphlet ''"Pollice Verso": To the Lovers of Truth in Classic Art, This is Most Respectfully Addressed'' published in Paris in 1879.

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