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A maiden ewe drest lamb fashion
Title
A maiden ewe drest lamb fashion [graphic].
Publication
[London] : Published 15th Septr. 1796 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London, [15 September 1796]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 25 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
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.
Notes
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.
Exhibited: "Artful Nature: Fashion and Theatricality, 1770-1830" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, February 2020 - May 2020.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2008
References
Isaac Cruikshank's drawings for Drolls, appendix
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1796.
Etchings - England - London - 1796.
Engravings - England - London - 1796.
Also listed under
Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
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