Free world trade represented as a marketplace, Un marche sous la republique universelle democraqtique et sociale (title on object), The utopia of free world trade represented as a marketplace where people from all over the world trade with each other. On display are dealers in books, fabrics, prints, musical instruments, art and paintings. In the square are statues with the personifications of the four continents, each with the motto 'Liberte egalite Fraternite' on the pedestal. On the left, a building with 'Banque du peuple' on its facade. In the background, sailing ships dock. With four-line poem by Pierre-Jean de Beranger below the image. print maker: Marie-Cecile Goldsmid, (mentioned on object), after design by: Frederic Sorrieu, (mentioned on object), printer: Joseph Rose Lemercier, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1848, paper, height 430 mm x width 547 mm.