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Title: Fast Colours: Patience on a Monument Smiling at Grief, or The Royal Laundress Washing Boney's Court Dresses Artist: George Cruikshank Description: Hand colored etching. 19 x 24 cm. on sheet 20 x 26 cm. Date: 1815 Citations: Cohn 1830. George 12617 Commentary: A caricature of Louis XVIII as an old washerwoman trying to remove the tricolor from Napoleon's court clothing. "Boney" (Napoleon) watches from exile.
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