Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

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Title: Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fashion before ease
Contributor: Collet, John, 1725?-1780, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [ca. 1777] and [printed ca. 1812]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who is also grasped by a small Black servant. The lady's lapdog looks on from the bed, while a monkey on the floor opens a book entitled "Fashion's victim: a satire"
Description: Title from item.
Date of printing based on watermark.
Place of publication and publisher from British Museum catalogue.
Imperfect, trimmed to design with loss of publication information and plate number.
Originally issued by Carington Bowles after June 1777, then re-issued (with date burnished from the plate) by Bowles & Carver.
Plate number: 362. Cf. Untrimmed impression in the British Museum.
Watermark: 1812.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Mezzotints England London 1812
Watermarks (Paper) 1812
Material: mezzotint, hand-colored ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Corsets
Fashion
Dogs
Monkeys
Beds
Bedrooms
Tug of war
Subjects: Corsets > Early works to 1800
Fashion > Early works to 1800
Dogs
Monkeys
Beds
Bedrooms
Tug of war
England > London > 1812
1812

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