Tight lacing [graphic]

Description

Title: Tight lacing [graphic]
Contributor: Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [5 March 1777]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho ...
Abstract: An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description: Title etched below image.
"RS" is probably "Richard Sneer", i.e. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Imprint continues: ... who has great variety of humorous prints.
Sheet trimmed wtihin plate mark with partial loss of price statement from lower right. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
"Price one shilling."
Mounted to 24 x 31 cm.
Provenance: Gift of New Haven Museum, in memory of James Dana English; August 2021.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 21.9 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English