Jean Balthazar, comte d'Adhémar de Montfalcon|Hannah Humphrey|Thomas Rowlandson

La politesse Françoise, or the English ladies petition to His Excellency the Mushroom Ambassador

May 4, 1789
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19.2 × 24.6 cm (7.6 × 9.7 in)

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