Title from item., From the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls., Plate numbered '172' in lower left corner., Printmaker identified from the original drawing in the Huntington Library., One line of text below title: "The end of these things is death.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Old women -- Earrings -- Miniature portraits as jewelry -- Female dress: masquerade costume -- Tickets: masquerade tickets -- Pictures amplifying subjects: portrait of Cleopatra -- Pulley-stiles -- Parasols -- Furniture -- Powder puffs -- Domestic servants: lady's maid -- Furnishings: window curtain tassels.
Publisher:
Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Older people, Women, Headdresses, Clocks & watches, Jewelry, Dressing tables, Umbrellas, and Women domestics
"Twelve single figures arranged in two rows, their complacent soliloquies etched above their heads, e.g. [3] An ugly woman dressed in a travesty of the fashion, with one large feather in her hair, large ear-rings, and an enormous oval miniature slung from her neck, holds up a small parasol, projecting at an angle from its clumsy stick. She says: "True happiness undoubtedly consists in an elegant taste for the Bon Ton." [4] A stout ugly woman says: "Though I am none of your flan dan Ladies I believe I can buy one half of them." One of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges., Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 15., and Restrike. Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Jewelry, Military uniforms, and British
Title from item., Printmaker identified in the British Museum catalogue., Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracature [sic] lent out for the evening. Prints & drawings lent out on the plan of a circulating library., Temporary local subject terms: Male dress: spencers -- Female dress: spencers., Watermark: (countermark) E & P., and Printseller's stamp in lower right corner of plate: S.W.F.
Publisher:
Pub. March 13, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville St.
Five women stand full-length most facing the viewer and exhibiting five styles of dress, as indicated in the words etched below each figure: A la Turk (Turkish) with a turban and oriental dress with Turkish trousers and bare breasts; A la Grec (Greek) with a high-waisted dress and feathered turban; A la Cité (Parisian) similar to the preceding woman but a different effect because the woman is short and balloon-shaped and wears a watch and seals from her bust; A la St. James, is shown with her back to the viewer, wearing a very large turban with two aigretts resembling stiffened brush of a fox; and, finally, A la St. Giles, a stout, busty woman in profile looking left, wearing a quilted petticoat and apron, arms crossed below her bare breasts
Description:
Title etched below image. and Publisher's advertisement following imprint: NB. folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 23, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street