The morgue or public charnel house of Paris on a bank of the Seine. A woman turns in horror from a corpse, an officer of the guards contemplates a female cadaver, and an attendant smokes a pipe. Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Victor Auver from "A Tour through Paris," William Sams, London, 1825. Illustration copied from Richard Peake's "French Characteristic Costumes," 1819.