Young ladies [graphic]

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Description

Title
Young ladies [graphic]
Creator
Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor
Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Published / Created
[6 January 1798?]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Three elderly hags are dressed as young girls, and leeringly imitate a girlish simper. One (perhaps the schoolmistress) sits on a chair under a tree (right) reading to the others, from 'Juvenel [sic] a Novel'. In her left hand is another book, 'An Ode to Beauty'. Beside her sits a dog clipped in the French manner. The others stand facing her, one closing her eyes and clasping her hands, the other, who holds a fan, leers at her companion. These two wear nosegays. All have high-waisted dress with sashes. The reader wears a straw hat tied on with a scarf. Behind her is a tree on whose trunk letters are carved: 'W' and 'I C' (for the artists). In the background (left) is the corner of a house inscribed 'Young Ladies Genteely Boarded & Educated' by A Bull

Description
Title etched below image.
Publication date from manuscript date added in contemporary hand in lower right corner.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Later state, with artist's and printmaker's names partially erased from plate, and without imprint. Cf .No. 8749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7.
Companion print to: Young Gentlemen in the dress of the year 1798.
Provenance
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vii.
Extent
1 print : sheet 36 x 27 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
798.01.06.03+

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1798
Etchings England London 1798
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Boarding schools
Dogs
Girls
Jewelry
Older people
Women
Subjects
Boarding schools
Dogs
Girls
Jewelry
Older people
Women
England > 1798
England > London > 1798

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
8157809
Object ID (OID)
10941106

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