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2.
- 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.
- 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]
4.
- 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]
5.
- 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]
6.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
9.
- 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.
- 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].
