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
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