print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,5.129
- Title
- Object: Chloe's cushion or the cork rump
- Description
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A lady dressed in a grotesque caricature of the prevailing fashion walking (left to right.) by the side of a lake. Her petticoats project behind her in an ascending curve, on which lies a King Charles spaniel. Her hair is dressed in a mountainous inverted pyramid, the apex represented by her head; it is flanked by side-curls and surmounted by interlaced ribbons from which hang streamers of ribbon and lace. 1 January 1777
Engraving with hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 352 millimetres
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Width: 249 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)
Only the uncoloured impression is numbered. This is the first plate in two of three volumes with the title-page of 1 Jan. 1776 (see BMSat 5369) which have been examined, one belonging to Mr. Dyson Perrins, the others to Mr. W. T. Spencer, New Oxford Street.
One of a number of satires, 1776-7, on monstrous hairdressing, see BMSat 5370, &c, and the 'cork rump', see BMSat 5381, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1986 Jan-Mar, London, Royal Academy, 'Sir Joshua Reynolds'
2002 Jan-Mar, Newcastle, Hatton Gall, Followers of Fashion
2002 Jun-Jul, Belfast, Ulster Mus, Followers of Fashion
2002 Aug-Sep, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, Followers of Fashion
2002/3 Dec-Feb, Brighton MAG, Followers of Fashion
2003 Apr-Jun, Braintree District Mus, Followers of Fashion
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,5.129
