Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805.

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Sep. 1 1805
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31909i
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Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Thornton's book 'A sporting tour through France' is adorned with aquatints: one shows ballad singers and shoe blacks on the Pont Neuf inParis, while other figures, such as this woman selling hot chestnuts, "add to the number of characters of the lower order of persons, in Paris, which exhibit the costume of the city". Several of the street-people, including the chestnut-vendor, were observed working in the shelter of the fine stonework walls that formed the embankments and bridges of Paris. In London, by contrast, Waterloo Bridge (as its name indicates) had not yet been built, nor had the Thames been embanked: there was merely a muddy shore next to the street

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London (Paternoster Row) : Longman & Co., Sep. 1 1805.

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1 print : aquatint, with etching and watercolour ; image 11 x 7.7 cm

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Chesnuts.

References note

Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, no. 84.I.48

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Wellcome Collection 31909i

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Colonel Thomas Thornton (1751/2-1823) was a sports-mad Yorkshire landowner, who, like many other Britons, took advantage of the 1802 Treaty of Amiens to visit France after a long period of war and civil disturbance. In 1806 he published a memoir of his visit in the form of a series of letters, under the title A sporting tour through France. In addition to comments on the different field-sports practices in France and Great Britain, Thornton offered "observations on the arts, sciences, agriculture, husbandry and commerce" of France and "strictures on the customs and manners of the French people". Thornton comments on the shoeing of horses, the hunting of wolves, the lack of gravel on dusty pathways, and the flirtatiousness of Parisian barmaids

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