Un Buffet de Chemin de Fer / Railway Refreshment Room

by Antoine Gustave Droz, Bettanier Regnier, Morlon, lithographers

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautifully coloured, humorous plate that was most likely part of a series published by Dusacq of images by various artists depicting railway related scenes. During the mid-nineteenth century, the technological advancement and financial prosperity of France under Napoleon III hastened the development of the railway and other modern modes of transportation such as the omnibus. These improvements brought about a culture of mass tourism, as members of various classes flocked

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