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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
date QS:P,+1815-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source

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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current08:10, 11 May 2006Thumbnail for version as of 08:10, 11 May 2006742 × 531 (257 KB)ChurchhA 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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