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Ourselves!!
Title
Ourselves!! [graphic] / Woodward delin. ; I.C.
Publication
[London] : Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street, [1 January 1796]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 35.9 x 47 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title from caption below image.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 15.
Summary
"Twelve single figures arranged in two rows, their complacent soliloquies etched above their heads, e.g. [3] An ugly woman dressed in a travesty of the fashion, with one large feather in her hair, large ear-rings, and an enormous oval miniature slung from her neck, holds up a small parasol, projecting at an angle from its clumsy stick. She says: "True happiness undoubtedly consists in an elegant taste for the Bon Ton." [4] A stout ugly woman says: "Though I am none of your flan dan Ladies I believe I can buy one half of them." One of a set."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2011
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7, no. 8926
Subjects
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1796.
Etchings - England - London - 1824.
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