In a garden, men with wens look through magnifying glasses at round flowers. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé after E.J. Pigal, 1823.

The album in which the print appears has text explaining this strange scene: the three men are afflicted with wens ('loupes') and the surrounding images establish correspondances and puns with these excrescences. The writer explains how a botanical garden is the ideal place to observe analogies to the wen in nature; it is here that 'tubercolic nature flourishes with all its variety and caprices'. These three men are naturalists who are looking through magnifying-glasses (in French, also 'loupes') at round, wen-like flowers. A man carries 'one of those culinary wens that have come to be called melons'. A child holds a bulging puppet and plays with a ball