Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream vide Brandenburg Theatricals / [graphic]

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Title: Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream vide Brandenburg Theatricals / [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [13 June 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 13th, 1795, by H. Humphrey, No. 37 New Bond Street
Abstract: "An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with a small ribbon-trimmed straw hat poised on the side of her head. Her girth is accentuated by her quasi-peasant costume, with laced bodice, and flowered over-dress looped up in festoons, giving her a globular contour. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Four lines of quoted verse in two columns below title: "As a cedar tall & slender; "sweet Cowslip's grace "is her nom'tive case, "and she's of the feminine gender."
One line of quoted text within lower border of image: "Ay, here's the masculine to the feminine gender."
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: bowls -- Female costume: peasant's dress -- Obesity -- Literature: quotes from John O'Keefe's Agreeable Surprise -- Theater: private performances.
Provenance: Walter Schatzki ; June 1960.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 34.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1795
Etchings England London 1795
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816
Subjects: Buckinghamshire, Albinia Hobart, Countess of, 1738-1816 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1795
England > London > 1795
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

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