<p>French illustration titled "Le prétexte." A humorous caricature depicting Scottish soldiers, wearing kilts, leaning forward to inspect items for sale.  Behind them, two well-dressed Parisian women use the pretext of playing with a child or tying a shoe in order to lean over and peek beneath the soldier's kilts.
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Caption in scan source (not the original 1815 caricature caption) was <i>Der Vorwand</i> ("the pretext").
Published by Aaron Martinet (1762 - 1841)
<p>A multicolor version of this caricature was published in "Tartan: Romancing the Plaid" <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-4556-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8478-4556-9">ISBN 978-0-8478-4556-9</a> p. 88-89; 
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An original is housed at the British Museum <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1338999&amp;partId=1">[1]</a>