A glum Frenchman: he has plenty of 'buttons' (French boutons, i.e. moles, nodules or naevi) on his face, but lacks them on his trousers. Coloured pen and ink drawing by Tirvert.

1 drawing : pen and ink, with blue crayon

Boutons mal placés. Dire que je ne peux pas aller à la noce de mon ami Paul, parce que je manque des boutons à mon pantalon Bears number under signature : 8264

The signature 'Tirvert' has two capital R's, unlike the signature of Eugène Tivert (1881-1948) reproduced in E. Bénézit's dictionary of artists, but no other artist called Tirvert to whom tihs drawing could be attributed has been identified

Wellcome Collection 17259i