The lady's disaster [graphic]June, John, printmakerpublish'd according to act of Parliament, Decemr [the] 15 [1746?]eng"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 catalogueTitle 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.