A tailor in a high wind, or, L'embarras des richesses drawn from life on the cliff Brighton. [art original]
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Lewis Walpole Library > A tailor in a high wind, or, L'embarras des richesses drawn from life on the cliff Brighton. [art original]
Watercolor drawing of a caricatured tailor standing in profile to the left revealing an enormous paunch. He stands before a railing on a boardwalk with the ocean waves below. He desperately clutches a small girl in his left arm, a cane between his legs, and fumbles with an umbrella as a forcible gale blows away the remainder of his possessions including a pattern book, wig, hat, the child's bonnet, and tape measure. A dog crouches on his side in the lower left