Gentlemen at a shoeblacks shop in Paris, 1820. An English parson shares snuff with a French officer seated on a bench while shoeshine boys polish their shoes. One customer reads a newspaper, one shows his boots to an old shoeblack. Doctor Syntax at the decroteurs. A la manier brillant. In the brilliant manner. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Charles Williams from Doctor Syntax in Paris; or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, W. Wright, London, 1820.

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