Fashionables of 1818 [graphic].

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Title: Fashionables of 1818 [graphic].
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [28 October 1818]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Octr. 28th, 1818 by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly & 312 Oxford St.
Abstract: A couple, much caricatured, bow to each other as they meet on a pavement. The man is very tall with exaggerated long legs wears dandy costume with bell-shaped top-hat, and trousers strapped under high-heeled boots with spurs, his very thin cane is his left hand. The much shorter lady is given height by the scoop of an enormously high bonnet. She wears a coat trimmed in ermine and matching large muff. Another couple on the left and two men with their chests puffed out walk from the right are similarly dressed and caricatured
Description: Title from caption below image.
"Price 1s."
See a similar print by G. Cruikshank: Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, no. 13090.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Watermark: Smith & Allnut 1815.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 98.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 23.3 x 37.6 cm, on sheet 25 x 39 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1818
Etchings England London 1818
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Men
Clothing & dress
Women
Hats
Muffs
Subjects: Men > Clothing & dress > 1810-1820
Women > Clothing & dress > 1810-1820
Hats
Muffs
England > 1818
England > London > 1818

Access: Public
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