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Madame Very Restaurateur, Palais Royal Paris, 1814

 Item — Box: LF100 Box 1
Reference code: LF100/66A
Madame Very Restaurateur, Palais Royal Paris, 1814
Madame Very Restaurateur, Palais Royal Paris, 1814

Scope and Contents

Engraving (coloured impression). 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 is piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. Very heads the list of the most renowned restaurateurs in Paris, in a guide-book, 'Le Nouveau Conducteur', of 1818, the address being Palais-Royal, and rue de Rivoli, No. 9. See Nos. 12366, 12367, 12368. Grego, 'Rowlandson', 11. 272. Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. IX. 12409.

On the same plate as LF100/66B, a companion print.

Dates

  • Creation: 1814

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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