[42] p., [21] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 x 34 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Engravings copied from Jean-Henri Marlet's Tableaux de Paris and Richard Brinsley Peake's Characteristic costume. See Abbey.
Contents:
Promenade of Her Serene Highness the Duchess of Berri -- Procession of the Fete, Dieu, Parish Saint Germain L'Auxenois -- A Corps de Garde of the Garde Nationale -- The charcoal porters -- The meridian of the Palais Royal -- The flower market -- La morgue -- The juggler of the Château d'Eau -- Military degradation in the Place Vendôme -- Itinerants on the boulevards -- Parisian street characters -- The Chamber of Deputies -- The catacombs -- Porters and fishwomen, revelling round the statue of Henry IV -- Parisians reading the public prints in the Garden of Tuilleries -- Interior of a swimming school -- Office of nurses -- Dancers on stilts, in the Champs Elysées -- The blind man of the Bridge of Arts -- The voitures of Versailles -- Distribution of wine on the morning of St. Louis.
Subject Terms:
France -- History -- Restoration, 1814-1830. | Paris (France) -- Social life and description -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Clothing and dress -- France -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Fashion -- France -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. | Sams, William -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1824.
Contributors:
Marlet, Jean-Henri, 1770-1847. Tableaux de Paris. | Peake, Richard Brinsley, 1792-1847.