"Above the design: 'A Peep at the French Monstrosities'. Two English tourists, both dressed as dandies (cf. No. 13029), walk arm-in-arm under the arcade of the Palais Royal, interested in the promenading courtesans. Two Frenchmen make more direct overtures to two women. Their dress is rather similar to that of the Englishmen, but the latter wear bell-shaped top-hats, while the Frenchmen have flower-pot shaped hats. An officer wearing a large cocked hat addresses a girl, and a man, said by Reid to be Irish, jovially accosts another. Some of the women are in evening-dress, others in street-costume. Behind are iron railings between the supports of the roof; on one of these is the inscription 'Caveau des Sauvages'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption above and below image., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- French.
Publisher:
Published Septr. 18th, 1818 by G. Humphrey, nephew & successor to the late Mr. H. Humphrey, =27 St. James's Street
