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Steel Buttons/ Coup de Bouton   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by:William Humphrey
Title
Steel Buttons/ Coup de Bouton
Description
English: A man (left) and woman (right), dressed in the height of the fashion, meet one another, walking in a park indicated by two trees. Rays of light spread from the large buttons on the man's coat and strike the face of the lady, who falls back dazzled, lifting her arms as if to ward off the blaze. The buttons appear to be of cut-steel or silver with incised lines and a beaded edge, see BMSat 5432, &c.; He wears a sword and carries a tasselled cane under his left arm. His shoes have large Artois buckles. The lady wears the enormous pyramid of hair decorated with curls then fashionable, see BMSat 5370, &c.; on its summit is an erection of ribbons, feathers, &c.;, which appears to be a hat. She holds a fan and wears a nosegay. Her dress has the tight waist, and inflated draperies over a comparatively narrow petticoat supported by a 'cork rump', see BMSat 5381, 5444, &c.; Reproduced, Paston, Pl. xxvi. 29 April 1777
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Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions Height:352 millimetres Width:250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Accession number
J,5.37
Notes Pasted to the verso is a cutting from the 'Morning Post' for 26 May 1777 on contemporary fashion, with a manuscript note by Sarah Banks 'The above does not quite answer the print, particulary the lady.'
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-37
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