Fashionable men and women playing the parlour game called the Statue. "When one is condemned to be the statue, she is placed in the centre of the room and everyone else has the right to pose her in any position they desire." Handcoloured engraving by Gatine from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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