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Delille in the role of Mme Dolban, in <i>La Comédie du Volage ou le Mariage difficile</i>, at the Théâtre de l'Impératice.\r\n\r\nBelow the image is a quote from the play:\r\n\"...Je suis à vos gneoux je vous adore, et j'en jure par cette main que je serre de toutes mes forces\" (Acte III, Scene IXme)\r\n\r\n<i>Le volage ou Le mariage difficile</i>, was a comedy in three acts written by Louis-Charles Caigniez.\r\n \r\nThis design appears to be part of a series of prints published by Martinet, Rue du Coq, of which this example is labelled as number 113. It is part of the Harry Beard Collection.","physicalDescription":"This full length coloured engraving shows a room with high ceilings and decorated with classical statuary, in the centre of which are a man and a woman. The woman is dressed in a dark blue gown with a short sleeved black overdress and kneeling at her feet, her hand grasped in his, is a man dressed in fawn coloured breeches and a dark brown cutaway jacket. 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