Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert, French poet, 1750-1780. Costume of a hack poet, in white shirt with quill pen and paper, seated on a bed in a garret. Le Metromane. Gilbert. Handcoloured steel engraving by Adele Laisne after an illustration by Tony Johannot, within a border by Bertrand, from Augustin Challamel's Autrefois ou Le Bon Vieux Temps, Types de 18e Siecle, Challamel et Cie, 1842.

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