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1.
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].

2.
Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies, that they may be immediately supplied

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 ...

3.
Fashion before ease, or, A good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1793]
Call Number:
793.01.02.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Britannia (left), a buxom young woman, clasps the trunk of a large oak, while Paine tugs with both hands at her stay-lace, placing a large foot on her posteriors. He wears blue and buff with a tricolour cockade on his bonnet rouge. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: 'Rights of Man'. His face is blotched with drink and his expression is fiercely intent, but he is neatly dressed. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: 'Thomas Pain, Stay-maker from Thetford. Paris Modes, by express.' Britannia looks over her shoulder at the stay-maker (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9240) with an expression of pained reproach. Her shield leans against the tree; her spear is on the ground; across it lies an olive-branch."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: stays -- Emblems: tri-colored cockade -- Male costume: bonnet rouge -- Reference to tailors -- Literature: Thomas Paine's Rights of Man -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Reference to Thetford and Paine's stay-making past -- Britannia's shield -- Symbols: olive branch., and Mounted to 42 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Corsets, Scissors & shears, Liberty cap, Shields, Spears, and Olive branches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fashion before ease, or, A good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form [graphic]

4.
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]

5.
[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]

6.
A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. July 1801]
Call Number:
Drawings N736 no. 7 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand above image., Artist name from dealer's description., Study (or copy) for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland. Not reversed., and John Nixon (ca. 1750 - 1818), city merchant and amateur watercolourist (topography) and designer and maker of satirical prints; honorary exhibitor in RA between 1781 and 1815.
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

7.
A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
July 1801.
Call Number:
801.07.00.05+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with such force that it lifts the cat off the ground and bends the candle. Above the fireplace is a broadside entitled: The storm by Mr. Dodd, cease rude boreas balstering railes ... On the table below the window (left) is a bowl labeled "Pease porridge" and a wig on a stand. On the ground at her feet lies a corset, shoes and other garments. Above the bed are boxed and breeches; a man's coat is hung on the back of the chair to the right of the hearth
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist attribution from dealer's description., and Study for a print of the same title that was published July 1801 by W. Holland.
Publisher:
Pub'd by Wm. Holland, Oxford street
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

8.
My husband he is fond of a slender waist. [graphic]

Published / Created:
[27 August 1828]
Call Number:
828.08.27.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 27, 1828, by John Fairburn, Broadway, Ludgate Hill
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress and Corsets
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > My husband he is fond of a slender waist. [graphic]

9.
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].

10.
The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 January 1805]
Call Number:
805.01.01.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly, sharp-featured virago, with skinny neck and muscular arms, sits directed to the right, furiously kicking and shaking her left fist at the old-fashioned looking-glass which stands on a muslin-covered dressing-table. The glass has been shattered by the curling-tongs which she holds in her right hand, and a broken hand-mirror lies on the floor. She wears old-fashioned stays laced over a petticoat, but her head-dress is complete; two tall feathers, with flowers and striped ribbon drapery, poised on unconvincing curls. On the dressing-table are fragments of mirror, large comb, tiny hair-brush, &c., bottles labelled 'Milk of Roses' and 'Olimpian Dew'. A bottle of 'Circassian Bloom' lies on the floor. The tall window is partly covered by a curtain hanging in festoons from above. Behind the chair is a shallow wooden tub."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: A Strassburg lily., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Companion print to: Looking glass in favour.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Mirrors, Dressing tables, Corsets, Anger, Feathers, Draperies, and Bottles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]