Customs inspectors opening luggage at the border, 18th century. Searched by the Douaniers at the French frontiers. 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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