A Gateway, Falaise [or La Porte des Cordeliers, Falaise]

Street scene in Falaise, Normandy; foreground, a back street with a gutter, a drainpipe and an old man, holding a stick and wearing clogs, seated in the doorway of a cafe; middleground, an elderly woman walking beneath an arched gateway and a flight of thirty-seven steps, with a rail, leading to a first storey door below a pointed tiled roof; background, a courtyard with houses, a lamp post, two young lovers and two women. Etched in fine detail with long parallel lines and cross hatching for shaded areas. Stopping out used in selected areas. Text on image, on signboards above cafe, 'CAFE RESTAURANT' and 'A LOURE[?]' and on signboard above gateway, 'LE PETIT [J?]OURNAL'