One of 30 hand-colored engraved humorous plates (published December 1815). 'The interior of a fashionable restaurant, which a hanging lamp shows to be Véry Frères (see No. 12367). A ragged old man on crutches leans through an open window to beg from a massive and gorged British officer, who faces him, seated at a small table. Their words are engraved below the design: "Je n'ai rien mangé depuis hier - God-dam! ce coquin il être bien heureux de avoir faim." The officer wears a short tunic with a large epaulet, projecting shirt-frill, and trousers; his right hand clasps his great paunch. On the table are a raised pie, dessert, bottles, and full glass. On the floor beside him are piled two plates, one with the half-eaten thigh of a bird and empty bottles, some broken. An incredibly bloated dog barks at the beggar. On a stool (left) are shako, with sword-belt and sabre. Behind the beggar is a colonnade. Behind the Briton a vestibule, from which a gentlemanly waiter takes a dish to a terrace with trees (right). Behind, in a glorified bar, surmounted by a pediment in which is a clock-face, stands an elegant woman, probably Mme Véry, see No. 12409; bottles and jars are ranged on shelves beside her.' - British Museum. One of 30 hand-colored engraved humorous plates (published December 1815). 'The interior of a fashionable restaurant, which a hanging lamp shows to be Véry Frères (see No. 12367). A ragged old man on crutches leans through an open window to beg from a massive and gorged British officer, who faces him, seated at a small table. Their words are engraved below the design: "Je n'ai rien mangé depuis hier - God-dam! ce coquin il être bien heureux de avoir faim." The officer wears a short tunic with a large epaulet, projecting shirt-frill, and trousers; his right hand clasps his great paunch. On the table are a raised pie, dessert, bottles, and full glass. On the floor beside him are piled two plates, one with the half-eaten thigh of a bird and empty bottles, some broken. An incredibly bloated dog barks at the beggar. On a stool (left) are shako, with sword-belt and sabre. Behind the beggar is a colonnade. Behind the Briton a vestibule, from which a gentlemanly waiter takes a dish to a terrace with trees (right). Behind, in a glorified bar, surmounted by a pediment in which is a clock-face, stands an elegant woman, probably Mme Véry, see No. 12409; bottles and jars are ranged on shelves beside her.' - British Museum. Oblong medium folio, mounted on tan board; margins; worn, yellowed. 'Suprême bon ton No. 6'. N.Y., Walter Schatzki, '1959.