Description
- Abstract:
- A woman is depicted waiting outside of a group of men, guarded by a one-legged soldier. As the description says, they are stock-jobbing, or buying and selling speculative stocks, with little regard for the value of the capital of the company, simply to make a fast and easy profit. This practice was popularized in the 18th century by the English bourgeois. The woman wears a fitted coat, resembling a man's English hunting coat. At this period, London was increasingly the center of men's fashion, as manifested by its influence on the still-dominant Parisian women's fashion. This women's dress is somewhat frillier and wider than the neo-classical 'chemise,' as women's dresses became more ornate as the 19th century progressed.
Access Conditions
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- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
"Stock-jobbing in the Palais-Royal:
Year VII (1799)
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(1898).
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:86317/
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Paris: Capital of the 19th Century
...The project, "Paris, Capital of the 19th century," initiated by the French Studies and Comparative Literature Departments of Brown University, provides a window into the cultural, political and social context of 19th century Parisian culture.
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