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Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)

Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 413

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e, under-takes all delicate commissions, and pays thenecessary visits to the newspaper critics; and,after all, solicits no other recompense than thehonour of seeing his own head sketched everyyear in the back-ground of a picture. After aday employed in fluttering hither and thither, hewill tell you… … THE artists friend. 30/ than the painter himself, who generally has only the advantage of the first of thesesensations. In the provinces, the Artists Friend, or, in other words, the hanger-on of thetheatrical troop, is a lieutenant, or a lawyer, or a lawyers clerk, or a liquor-mer-chant, or the…

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