A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]

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Title: A morning frolic, or, The transmutation of sexes [graphic]
Alternative Title: Transmutation of sexes
Contributor: Collet, John, 1725?-1780, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd as the Act directs [25 March 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: "A soldier and a woman in deshabille swapping clothes; the woman standing hands on hips on the left wearing the sword and tricorn; the man sitting demurely on the right holding a fan and wearing a bonnet; tea-tray and four poster bed behind, a dog jumping up at a parrot on the left and a book open on the floor inscribed 'Ovid's Metamorphoses done into English';"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed within plate line.
Publication date from British Museum catalogue. Date burnished from plate.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 36 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1780
Mezzotints England London 1780
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Couples
Cross dressing
Soldiers
Military uniforms
British
Boudoirs
Tableware
Furniture
Pets
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Couples
Cross dressing
Soldiers
Military uniforms > British > 18th century
Boudoirs
Tableware
Furniture
Pets
Clothing & dress > England > 1780
England > 1780
England > London > 1780

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