The Frenchman at Market (BM 1868,0808.9932)

Satire on French elegance and Scots miserliness accompanying a letter in the Oxford Magazine, 1770, describing an encounter between a butcher near Clare Market who struck a French Valet de Chambre after the latter complained of being bumped into. The butcher lands a blow on the Frenchman's chest while a chimney sweep's boy sits on his master's shoulders so as to drop a mouse into the Frenchman's bag-wig; a dog urinates on the Frenchman's shoe; behind them an old woman smoking a pipe and carrying a basket of artichokes on her head laughs; on the left a thin Scotsman steals a leg of mutton from the butcher's stall. 1770
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