A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word Paris. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram’s head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures. The Café des Milles Colonnes was renowned for its gilt columns and mirrors, and for the elegance of its presiding lady, Mme Romain, whose raised seat had belonged to the Viceroy of Italy. Its ‘fat princess’ is described in Rowlandson’s Dance of Life. Description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. XI.