Mode du Jour No: 6. Les Decroteurs du Palais Egalite.
Dessine par Desrais. Grave par Florion. A Paris chez Basset Md. d'estampes et Fabricant de Papiers peints pour Tenture. Rue St. Jacques No. 670 [n.d., c.1805]. Depose a la Bibliotheque N le Hand-coloured engraving, rare, image 190 x 285mm. 7½ x 11¼". Lacking margin to left and right; stitching holes and vertical fold. Boot scrapers clean the boots of two fashionably-dressed young men in their Parisian premises; two young women outside seen through a window, one of them holding "Liste des demoiselle du palais egalite". From a series of social satires on fashion and mores in Paris by Claude-Louis Desrais (1746 - 1816).
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