New Year's Gifts
A boy in dragoon uniform scrabbles for sweets under his father's legs, while a baby plays with a puppet on his mother's lap. A black servant boy prays for a gift at left. Children, adolescents, girls of 15 and 16, servants and poor wretches, all show happy smiling faces on the first of the year. Half the world becomes, a this time, dependent on the other. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. A boy in dragoon uniform scrabbles for sweets under his father's legs, while a baby plays with a puppet on his mother's lap. A black servant boy prays for a gift at left. Children, adolescents, girls of 15 and 16, servants and poor wretches, all show happy smiling faces on the first of the year. Half the world becomes, a this time, dependent on the other. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817
