Hand-coloured engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia'

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Hand coloured French engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia' (Roast Chestnuts) showing a Highland soldier in Paris in 1816.

The productivity of French print sellers underwent rapid expansion during the encampment of the Highland Regiments in the Bois de Boulogne while Paris was occupied after the Battle of Waterloo.

The kilt held a great fascination for the French print sellers, who frequently used puns within their work about the wearers' anatomy and what its effects could be on the female inhabitants of Paris.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-282-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1953.1072
• Date: 1816
  c. 1816
  
• Material: Paper
  Print / engraving
  
• Dimensions: 225 mm H x 193 mm W
  
• What: Print / engraving
  
• Subject: Prints / History - Military
  
• Who:
• Where: France, Paris (depicted)
  
• Event: Napoleonic Wars, 1803 - 1815 (war)
  Waterloo (battle)
  
• Description: Hand-coloured engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia' with Highland soldiers, from the British occupation of Paris after the Battle of Waterloo, published Paris c. 1816.
  
• References:
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
  • Wood, Stephen The Auld Alliance: Scotland and France, the military connection. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing in conjunction with the Mona Bismarck Foundation, 1989 
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