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Women in long flannel garments (cf. BM Satires No. 14099) and caps, drawn with comic realism, stand (knee-deep), splash, or float in the sea, close to two bathing-machines (left). Two fat old bathing-women carry a frightened invalidish woman whom they are about to dip. The open door of a machine shows a lady undressing or dressing. Chalk cliffs recede in perspective, and before them are other machines (one with a canvas tilt), and other bathers in shallow water. A bathing-woman wades in carrying a protesting child. The P. P. of the signature says: 'Bless me—hope I don't intrude'. c. 1829
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