Tight lacing [graphic]

Description

Title: Tight lacing [graphic]
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
R. S.
J. H.
Published / Created: [not before 1782]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by Wm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Abstract: An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description: Title from item.
Undated reissue by a different publisher. Cf. No. 5452 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
R.S. is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Date of publication conjectured from Holland's occupancy of 50 Oxford Street, known to be from 1782 to 1803.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1782
Drypoints England London 1782
Satires (Visual works) England 1782
Material: etching with drypoint ; and hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Beds
Bedrooms
Subjects: Clothing & dress
Beds
Bedrooms
England > London > 1782
England > 1782

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