The lady's disaster [graphic]

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Description

Title
The lady's disaster [graphic]
Creator
June, John, printmaker
Published / Created
publish'd according to act of Parliament, Decemr [the] 15 [1746?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"A satire on women's fashion; A street scene in which a crowd of people watch amused as a lady struggles with her wide hoop which has become tangled on the side of a building, a chinmey sweep who has fallen at her feet and a jewellery seller in an underground shop both have a view up her skirts."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from item.
Text following title: nil ortum tale. Hor.
Publication year erased from this impression and supplied in contemporary hand as 1746.
'Price 6d.'
Twenty-two lines of verse in four columns, followed by four lines of explanation, below image: If fame say true in former days, the fardingale was no disgrace ... The explanation reads: Drawn from the fact occasion'd by a lady carelessly tossing her hoop too high in going to shun a littel [sic] chimney sweeper's boy who fell down just at her feet in an artful suprise at [the] enormous sight.
Possibly intended as a companion print to: The beaux disaster. Cf. British Museum catalogue, no. 2880.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Street scenes: Strand, London -- Female dress: hoops -- Churches: New Church in the Strand -- Shop stalls.
Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss; May 1954;
Extent
1 print : plate mark 23.3 x 30.6 cm, on sheet 26 x 34 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
746.12.15.01.1+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1746
Etchings England London 1746
Watermarks (Paper)
Material
etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
London (England)
Subject (Topic)
Social life and customs
Chimney sweeps
City & town life
Military uniforms
Signs (Notices)
Subjects
London (England) > Social life and customs > 18th century
Chimney sweeps
City & town life
Military uniforms
Signs (Notices)
England > 1746
England > London > 1746

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8715129
Object ID (OID)
10714401

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