A very fat man, stuck in a turnstile in a passage between two buildings, is helped by a young boy (right) with a suitcase (a boot-black?) and a man in fur cap, perhaps a carrier whose handcart leans against the wall (left). The passage is identified o...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Chez Martinet, Libraire, rue du Coq, St. Honoré
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Turnstiles, Obesity, and City & town life
A street scene in Paris, at corner of Pont Neuf: a blind man and a lame man beg on the sidewalk beside a bookseller's stall, the seller in glasses looing up at his shelves under an awning. Two street vendors sit in the street: a man with a peg leg hol...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres, rue St. Jacques no. 16 et rue des Prêtres St. Germain-l'Auxerois, no. 22
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Beggars, Blind persons, Bookselling, Peg legs, Pleading (Begging), Ratcatching, Sheep shearing, Shoe shining, and Street vendors
Aerial panorama of the buildings and grounds of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1878, bisected by the Seine, with streets, national pavilions, and other buildings labeled and a hot air balloon floating in the sky. Left side of river is labeled ""Tro...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards...
