Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream vide Brandenburg Theatricals / [graphic]Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker[13 June 1795]eng"An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with a small ribbon-trimmed straw hat poised on the side of her head. Her girth is accentuated by her quasi-peasant costume, with laced bodice, and flowered over-dress looped up in festoons, giving her a globular contour. ..."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Four lines of quoted verse in two columns below title: "As a cedar tall & slender; "sweet Cowslip's grace "is her nom'tive case, "and she's of the feminine gender."One line of quoted text within lower border of image: "Ay, here's the masculine to the feminine gender."Sheet trimmed to plate mark.Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: bowls -- Female costume: peasant's dress -- Obesity -- Literature: quotes from John O'Keefe's Agreeable Surprise -- Theater: private performances.1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 34.7 x 24.8 cm.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Mounted on leaf 69 of volume 8 of 12.