EditorialRoop Chund Roy Street, Calcutta. Roop chund roy street is near the Burra bazaar... The gamblers on the left ... Courtezan smoking her hubble-bubble, on the right ... The dwarf is well known in the bazaar ... The cloth suspended from lines, indicates th...
EditorialA woman is pampered by her seamstress, her clothes seller, her hairdresser and two chambermaids. As Montesquieu said, "For one man to live deliciously, one hundred others must work tirelessly." Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bo...
EditorialA fashionable woman at the dinner table feeds her pampered spaniel Azor with a chicken wing, the chambermaid eats a herring from a plate on her knees. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.