Ourselves!! [graphic]

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Title: Ourselves!! [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Abstract: "Twelve single figures arranged in two rows, their complacent soliloquies etched above their heads, e.g. [3] An ugly woman dressed in a travesty of the fashion, with one large feather in her hair, large ear-rings, and an enormous oval miniature slung from her neck, holds up a small parasol, projecting at an angle from its clumsy stick. She says: "True happiness undoubtedly consists in an elegant taste for the Bon Ton." [4] A stout ugly woman says: "Though I am none of your flan dan Ladies I believe I can buy one half of them." One of a set."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.
Design consists of twelve figures in two rows, each with lines of text etched above.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left edges.
Plate numbered in upper right corner: Vol. 1, pl. 15.
Restrike. Watermark: J. Whatman 1824.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi, 1796.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.9 x 47 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1796
Etchings England London 1824
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Jewelry
Military uniforms
British
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
Jewelry
Military uniforms > British
England > 1796
England > London > 1824

Access: Public
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