Old gentleman with gout in an invalid chair talking with a young woman in bloomers, 19th century. They are in a hallway between the billiard room and the coffee rooms. Sir Thomas Trout and the Bloomer, Miss Constantia Mendlove. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by John Leech from Robert Smith Surtees’ Handley Cross, or Mr. Jorrocks’s Hunt, Bradbury, Evans and Co., London, 1854.

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