Fashionable elegance [graphic].

Description

Title: Fashionable elegance [graphic].
Alternative Title: Modern elegance
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [22 May 1795]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. May 22d. 1795 by H. Humphrey, N. 37 New Bond Street
Abstract: A lady sits in an armchair, her head tilted back to the side so that she can see her reflection in the large mirror on the wall behind her. She wears a loose-fitting dress, suggestive of her pregnant state? Her full figure and large breasts are well-defined. She is wearing gloves and a turban adorned with ostrich feathers. She holds a fan in her right hand and long locks of hair escape from her turban. Beneath the chair is a patterned carpet
Description: Title from caption below image.
Probably an earlier state of: Modern elegance: a portrait. Cf. No. 8719 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 7.
Provenance: Andrew Edmunds; September 2011.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 41 x 28 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 (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Subjects: Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1790-1800
England > 1795
England > London > 1795

Access: Public
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