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The lady's disaster
Author
Title
The lady's disaster [graphic] / J. June fect.
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decemr [the] 15 [1746?]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 23.3 x 30.6 cm, on sheet 26 x 34 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Local Notes
Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes: Strand, London -- Female dress: hoops -- Churches: New Church in the Strand -- Shop stalls.
Notes
Title from item.
Text following title: nil ortum tale. Hor.
Publication year erased from this impression and supplied in contemporary hand as 1746.
'Price 6d.'
Twenty-two lines of verse in four columns, followed by four lines of explanation, below image: If fame say true in former days, the fardingale was no disgrace ... The explanation reads: Drawn from the fact occasion'd by a lady carelessly tossing her hoop too high in going to shun a littel [sic] chimney sweeper's boy who fell down just at her feet in an artful suprise at [the] enormous sight.
Possibly intended as a companion print to: The beaux disaster. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 2880.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Summary
"A satire on women's fashion; A street scene in which a crowd of people watch amused as a lady struggles with her wide hoop which has become tangled on the side of a building, a chinmey sweep who has fallen at her feet and a jewellery seller in an underground shop both have a view up her skirts."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 22, 2009
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1746.
Etchings - England - London - 1746.
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