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- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [23 March 1796]
- Call Number:
- 796.03.23.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hosiery, Turbans, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The gallery of fashion [graphic].