Hotel guest beset by salespeople in the parlour of the Hotel des Quatre Nations, Paris, 18th century. The room is full of furriers, lace sellers, hatters, mercers, hairdressers, tailors, sword cutlers, pimps, horse-dealers, etc. Arrival at Paris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Thomas Rowlandson from Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, translated and abridged from Moritz August von Thummel’s Reise in die mittäglichen Provinzen van Frankreich im Jahre 1785–1786, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1821.

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