Fashionable convenience!! [art original]

Description

Title: Fashionable convenience!! [art original]
Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1799]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A mother dressed in a poke bonnet and long loose-fitting white dress holds the hand of her young daughter who wears a blue sash and feather plumed hat. The child says "Mamma I want some money to buy cakes" while her mother responds "How can you be so vulgar child, have not I told you a hundred times I never wear pockets!"
Description: Signed by the artist; title from caption in the artist's hand.
Date supplied by cataloger.
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Provenance: Purchased from Abbott and Holder, 3 January 1997.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 21.5 x 19 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors British 18th century
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: watercolor with pen and black ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Bonnets
Girls
Mothers
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Bonnets
Girls
Mothers
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: G.M. Woodward, Fashionable Convenience!!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.