The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]
- Contributor
- Fores, S. W., publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1 January 1805]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Abstract
-
"An elderly, sharp-featured virago, with skinny neck and muscular arms, sits directed to the right, furiously kicking and shaking her left fist at the old-fashioned looking-glass which stands on a muslin-covered dressing-table. The glass has been shattered by the curling-tongs which she holds in her right hand, and a broken hand-mirror lies on the floor. She wears old-fashioned stays laced over a petticoat, but her head-dress is complete; two tall feathers, with flowers and striped ribbon drapery, poised on unconvincing curls. On the dressing-table are fragments of mirror, large comb, tiny hair-brush, &c., bottles labelled 'Milk of Roses' and 'Olimpian Dew'. A bottle of 'Circassian Bloom' lies on the floor. The tall window is partly covered by a curtain hanging in festoons from above. Behind the chair is a shallow wooden tub."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Print signed using an unidentified artist's device: A Strassburg lily.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Companion print to: Looking glass in favour. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xi.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 315 x 232 mm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 805.01.01.05
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Artists' devices
Satires (Visual works) England 1805
Etchings England London 1805
Aquatints England London 1805 - Material
- etching and aquatint with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Older people
Mirrors
Dressing tables
Corsets
Anger
Feathers
Draperies
Bottles - Subjects
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Older people
Mirrors
Dressing tables
Corsets
Anger
Feathers
Draperies
Bottles
England > 1805
England > London > 1805
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
- 8504976
- Object ID (OID)
- 11018155