Music cover sheet: a man posing jauntily in the middle of a street; beyond, buildings and a carriage filled with passengers, marked with the direction of vincennes; around the figure are three circular vignettes; at upper left, passengers entering a horse-drawn carriage, the driver looking behind him; below this, a vignette with a gentleman whipping a man, while another man with a whip approaches them; at right, a vignette depicting a man, bust-length,with a whimsicla sketch of a man smoking above his head; compositions as vignettes on a title page for a musical comedy dedicated to 'gilbert des ambassadeurs', with words by lucien le breton and music by a. Teste; lines of text above and below the composition. C. 1870/80s
lithograph. Date: 1870-1880s (c.). Dimensions: Height: 340 mm (sheet); Width: 254 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Non quibus, non omnibus (BM 1922,0410.94)
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