English gentleman on trial in a religious tribunal in Avignon. He takes out a page with the legend of St. Clara of Falkenstein to the astonishment of an old hag and chaste Clara. The sacred page displayed. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel’s Reise in die mittäglichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785–1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821.

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