Woman balancing on a candlestick on a table, while a child walks on its hands. "Later, Madame Herculanus fixes two anchors in curling papers to her hair, and lifts an anvil with her hands as if picking up a hairpin." Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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