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The Inconvenience of Dress   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Townley Stubbs

Published by: S W Fores
Title
The Inconvenience of Dress
Description
English: A lady seated at table in profile to the left, a tureen before her, attempts to take a spoonful of soup; she guides the spoon carefully over her projecting false bosom. Her cheeks are hollow. Her much inflated dress, with its false 'derriere' (see BMSat 6874, &c), projects through the back of her chair. Her hair is puffed out in the prevailing manner, ringlets rest on her shoulder. Beneath the title is engraved:



'Rage for Dress - Bewitching passion!
Who'd not starve to lead the Fashion?
Starve! wheres the Beaux so very dull,
To think they'll starve with Crops so full?' 19 May 1786


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 231 millimetres
Width: 173 millimetres (trimmed)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.298
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) See BMSat 7099, &c. Described by Angelo, 'Reminiscences', 1904, i. 327-8.

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(?)Not listed in appendix II in Lennox-Boyd.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-298
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