The ladies monument [graphic]Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker[July 1822?][approximately 1868?]eng"A close up view of the lower part of the Achilles, exaggerated to a colossal size ... Women stand below holding garments with which they purpose to drape the statue. One holds a large print of the Achilles at which she stares ecstatically. One lady, wearing a cap in the form of a baron's coronet, has climbed on to the plinth; she addresses the women below, holding out a large chemise and pointing up at the colossal legs behind her."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier stateTitle etched below image.Signed by the printmaker in lower right corner of image.Restrike, with altered title and with top portion of design burnished from plate. For an earlier state bearing the title "Ladies buy your leaf!!" and with the design intact, see no. 14380 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10.Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?]Plate originally published ca. July 1822; see British Museum catalogue."Irish Chairman"--Below title, in lower right.Cf. Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 1097.Cf. Reid, G.W. A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank, 1086.Temporary local subject terms: Prudery.