print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2010,7081.2155
Description: Satire on fashion: a young woman holds on to a bed-post while her husband, with gloves on his hands, her maid and black page-boy join forces to tug tight the laces of her stays; her lap dog sits on the bed; her pet monkey sits on the floor pointing at a book lettered, "Fashions Victim a Satire". Mezzotint with some etching
Producer name: Published by: Bowles & Carver; After: John Collet
School/style
Production date: 1777 (circa?)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 153 millimetres; Width: 114 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See the large version: 1935,0522.1.227. This is probably a republished state of a plate originally issued by Carington Bowles.
Bibliographic references: BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (4552) (cf.); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; macaroni; black (page boy); bedroom
Acquisition name
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date: 2010
Acquisition notes: Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2010,7081.2155

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