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French illustration titled "Le prétexte." A humorous caricature depicting Scottish soldiers, wearing kilts, leaning forward to inspect items for sale. Behind them, two well-dressed Parisian women use the pretext of playing with a child or tying a shoe in order to lean over and peek beneath the soldier's kilts. Caption in scan source (not the original 1815 caricature caption) was Der Vorwand ("the pretext"). |
| Date | circa 1815 |
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A multicolor version of this caricature was published in "Tartan: Romancing the Plaid" ISBN 978-0-8478-4556-9 p. 88-89; An original is housed at the British Museum [1] |
| Author | Published by Aaron Martinet (1762 - 1841) |
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| current | 08:10, 11 May 2006 | | 742 × 531 (257 KB) | Churchh | A humorous caricature depicting Scottish soldiers, wearing kilts, in Continental Europe ca. 1815. Of course, it must be purely a coincidence that both the sitting women at the left have found reasons to bend down and look across at the same moment that t |
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