A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.

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A chaperone introduces a young dancer or actress in costume to an elderly man in top hat and tails; he chucks the young woman under the chin, and the chaperone leaves them. Process print after A. Guillaume.