A desert-imitation [i.e. dessert-imitation] of modern fashion! [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A desert-imitation [i.e. dessert-imitation] of modern fashion! [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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Desert-imitation of modern fashion!
Dessert-imitation of modern fashion! - Creator
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Contributor
- McLean, T. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1828?]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. by T. McLean 26 Haymarket
- Abstract
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"An inverted wine-glass (claret shape), partly fluted, represents a woman; the bowl is a bell-shaped petticoat, the stem a pinched waist and bodice; the wide base forms the brim of her plateau-hat on which stands a cork with a metal rim and upstanding ring to form the narrow jam-pot crown (cf. BM Satires No. 15466). On the base (or brim) are bunches of grapes from which hang trails of vine leaves. Tied symmetrically to the stem are two pears, representing inflated sleeves, the stalks serving for wrists and hands. Below the design six lines of verse
- Description
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Title from text above image.
Print signed using a varient of William Heath's device: A man with a raised glass rather than an umbrella. Also with the lines in a speech balloon: What have we got here by Jove what we are all fond of a Lass & à Glass my service to you Gents tis but a frail fair after all.
Questionable publication date from British Museum catalogue.
Six lines of verse below image: Turn a tumbler up side down, The foot for a hat and a cork for the crown, Some grapes for trimming, will give an air, And as for Sleeves have ready a pear, When join'd to gather tis sure to tell, A picture true, of a modern belle. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xx, p. 74.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 37.7 x 27 cm, on sheet 41 x 28 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 828.00.00.15+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1828
Etchings England London 1828
Artists' devices - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
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England > 1828
England > London > 1828
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9566461
- Object ID (OID)
- 10970362
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