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1. Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies, that they may be immediately supplied with her Anatomical Stays, which have come under the inspection of the most eminent physicians and surgeons ...

Creator:: Gibbon, Martha Morling, 1772-1832
Published / Created:: [approximately 1825]
Call Number:: File 66 825 G439
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text
Description:: Title from item., Printed trade card., Text ends: Ladies wishing to be suited, are requested to make an early application at 7, Sackville Street, London., Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon was a maker of stays who was granted a patent in 1801., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Topic):: Corsets and Selling
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies, that they may be immediately supplied with her Anatomical Stays, which have come under the inspection of the most eminent physicians and surgeons ...

2. 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

Creator:: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [approximately 1812]
Call Number:: 812.00.00.129+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A toilet scene. The Regent stands in profile to the right at his dressing-table, rouging his cheek with a small brush. An attendant, resembling McMahon, laces the stays which in front resemble a waistcoat; he tugs at the lace, standing on a low stool, using one foot as a fulcrum against his master's posterior (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8287), a small buffer ornamented with goats' heads being attached to this foot. On the oval mirror which reflects the Prince's face sits a monkey, holding on its head a wig with a pyramid of curls above the forehead with large side-whiskers attached. The Prince's hair is similarly arranged. The Prince's tail-coat, in back view, is spreadeagled on a stand. On an ornate wall-bracket inscribed 'Bills' and 'Recetts' are two ornamental files, one filled with bills: 'hatters Bill', 'Poulterers Bill', 'Fishmongers B', 'Hair Dresser', 'Taylors Bill', 'Butchers Bill', 'Docters Bill', 'Silve smiths Bill'; the other empty. A bracket-clock, surmounted by a figure of Time shearing a triple ostrich plume, points to two o'clock (reversed). A round wall-mirror and candle-sconce is surmounted by a figure of Bacchus bestriding a cask. On the dressing-table are pots and jars of 'Tooth Powder', 'Rouge', 'Otto of Roses', and 'Secilian Wash for the Skin'. On the floor is a book, 'The Stripes Poem', which a small dog shaved like a poodle is befouling."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Regency a la mode
Description:: Title etched below image., Imprint statement burnished from plate and mostly illegible; it appears to begin "Pub. Feb. 1st [...?]"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid down on modern laid blue-grey THS Kent paper. Mounted to 49 x 36 cm.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, and Dionysus (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):: Dressing tables, Cosmetics, Corsets, Stools, Mirrors, Monkeys, Wigs, Debt, Sconces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

3. The last shift [graphic].

Published / Created:: published as the act directs, 21 Dec. 1792.
Call Number:: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:: Opposite page 214. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A courtesan stands at a wash-tub, washing her last shift. She wears a cap over ringlets in curl-papers and a tattered petticoat, a shawl covers her naked shoulders. The room is squalid, with plaster falling from the bricks. Across the fireplace stockings hang on a string to dry. The corner of a bed appears on the right. On the table by the wash-tub is a small gin tankard. Under it is a pair of stays. A cat tries to reach a (broken) plate of cheese on a chair. On the floor, beside a fashionable high-crowned hat, lies a ballad: 'How happy were my days till now...'. Papers are thrust under the vertical bar of the casement window, one inscribed 'Admit Two to the Boxes'. Probably an imitation of Gillray's 'The Whores Last Shift', see British Museum Satires No. 5604."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., Plate numbered "626" in lower left corner., Folded to 31.3 x 25.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 214 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Courtesans, Interiors, Wash tubs, Fireplaces, Hosiery, Corsets, and Cats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The last shift [graphic].

4. [Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]

Creator:: Hibbart, William, 1725-1808, printmaker
Published / Created:: 30 Dec. 1776, as the act directs.
Call Number:: 49 3069
Collection Title:: Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George., Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm., and Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:: Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]

5. Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

Published / Created:: [ca. 1777] and [printed ca. 1812]
Call Number:: 777.00.00.10+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who is also grasped by a small Black servant. The lady's lapdog looks on from the bed, while a monkey on the floor opens a book entitled "Fashion's victim: a satire"
Alternative Title:: Fashion before ease
Description:: Title from item., Date of printing based on watermark., Place of publication and publisher from British Museum catalogue., Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number., Originally issued by Carington Bowles after June 1777, then re-issued (with date burnished from the plate) by Bowles & Carver., Plate number: 362. Cf. Untrimmed impression in the British Museum., and Watermark: 1812.
Publisher:: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):: Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

6. Tight lacing, or, Hold fast behind [graphic] / MD [monogram].

Creator:: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:: March 1, 1777.
Call Number:: 777.03.01.04+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing table may be seen to the left
Alternative Title:: Hold fast behind
Description:: Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 29, V. 2.
Publisher:: Pub. by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Corsets, Fashion, Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Beds, Bedrooms, and Dressing tables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Hold fast behind [graphic] / MD [monogram].

7. Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

Published / Created:: [4 November 1777]
Call Number:: 777.11.04.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her high heels are visible beneath the hem of a quilted skirt. To the left is a chair beneath a casement window, while a bird in a cage is suspended from the ceiling on the right
Alternative Title:: Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:: Title from item. and Eight lines of verse in 2 columns below image beginning: "The hoity head & toity waist, As now they're all the ton ..."
Publisher:: Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Corsets, Fashion, Wife abuse, Couples, Shoemakers, Workshops, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Furniture, and Interiors
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

8. The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:: [22 October 1772]
Call Number:: Folio 72 771 D37 v.5 plate 9
Collection Title:: Leaf 88. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistcoat, cravat, and ruffled shirt. Probably a stay-maker."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Whalebone macaroni
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner.
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

9. The protecting macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:: [9 October 1772]
Call Number:: Folio 72 771 D37 v.4 plate 24
Collection Title:: Leaf 86. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A man (right) in shirt and breeches is being laced into stays by a shorter man who stands behind him. The taller man is knock-kneed and has some resemblance to the Duke of Grafton. On the ground is a chased goblet to which a label is attached, "Duplicate 5. 5. 0." The valet or stay-maker is dressed in the prevailing macaroni manner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner.
Publisher:: Pubd. accordg. to act Octr. 9, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Corsets, and Drinking vessels
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The protecting macaroni [graphic].

10. The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:: [22 October 1772]
Call Number:: 772.10.22.03
Collection Title:: Leaf 88. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistcoat, cravat, and ruffled shirt. Probably a stay-maker."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:: Whalebone macaroni
Description:: Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner., Watermark: Strasburg bend., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 12.4 cm, on sheet 18 x 12.4 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides and top.
Publisher:: Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].