A woman writes a letter on a somno (night table containing a chamberpot) with her feet on a pillow, while her dog chews a lace collar and a cat sleeps on her ballgown. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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