A hint to the ladies, or, A visit from Dr. Flannel!! [graphic] / Wodward [sic] del. ; Cruikshank s.

[London] : Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, [1807?]

1 print : etching ; sheet 24.9 x 37.2 cm

wove paper

Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: Flannel petticoat -- China dishes -- China cup & saucer -- Parquet floors.

Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.

"A grotesque old doctor, with carbuncled nose, approaches a lady, bowing low and holding out a clumsy petticoat. He says: "Mrs Jenny said your Ladyship complain'd of being cold about the loins - so I have Just stept in with a warm flannel petticoat." She is seated beside a tea-table, and throws up her arms, flinching back in horror; she says: "I have no loins fellow! do you want to make a monster of me?!!" She wears a high-waisted, short-sleeved dress, under which her legs are defined. Her little dog barks at the doctor. A large urn and a small cup (overturned) and saucer, are the only objects on the table."--British Museum online catalogue.

Visit from Dr. Flannel

English

March 12, 2009