print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1869,1211.56
- Title
- Object: Tight lacing
- Description
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Two elderly and ugly women in a bedroom. One, who appears to be the mistress, clings with both hands to the post of a four-post bed, leaning backwards while her maid exerts all her strength to lace her stays. The maid holds a poker in both hands, the stay-lace has been twisted round it; one foot is placed on the projecting skirt of her mistress, which is extended by a 'cork rump', see BMSat 5381, &c; she leans back in order to pull the harder. The lady's hair is dressed in the prevailing fashion of caricature, trimmed with feathers, lace, flowers, &c. She wears a large pocket over her under-petticoat. On the wall are two half length portraits which appear to be caricatures of costume: one (left), contemporary, showing a woman with a compressed waist, a man with enormous buttons, see BMSat 5432, &c.; the other (right) perhaps Elizabethan. See also BMSat 5444, &c. 5 March 1777
Etching
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres
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Width: 314 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
Similar in manner to BMSat 4778, 5453.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1869
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1869,1211.56
