English tourists riding down the Montagnes Russes rollercoaster in Paris, 1820. Doctor Syntax and his wife descending the Russian Mountains. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Charles Williams from Doctor Syntax in Paris; or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, W. Wright, London, 1820.

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