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People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.

Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

Gentlemen carrying torches visiting catacombs in Paris. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.

A market with a man carrying pails of milk, a woman selling vegetables to a sapeur-pompier (fireman), and a woman selling fish to a man as a soldier looks on. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

Adam sacrifices a lamb, which Eve scatters with flowers (left); Thirza mourns by the water (right). Etching by R.B. Peake after T. Uwins.

Street vendors and shops in a street in Paris. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Aquatint by R.B. Peake after H.W. Bunbury.

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A market with a man carrying pails of milk, a woman selling vegetables to a sapeur-pompier (fireman), and a woman selling fish to a man as a soldier looks on. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

A tooth-drawer with 'lightness of hand' extracting a tooth from a protesting patient, amidst the chaos of his practice. Aquatint by R.B. Peake after H.W. Bunbury.

People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.

Rue du Petit Musc, Paris: street vendors outside a liquor shop;a group of soldiers walk down the street on the left, while a boy wearing clogs sweeps the street. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake.

A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.