Man and woman of Savoy or Savoie, 1818. The man ia street entertainer with box of props on his back, the woman plays a lute and the boy plays a triangle. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning’s A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century.

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