"The enormously fat Mrs. Hobart sits in profile to the left in a small armchair, her right foot on a stool, her leg exposed. She places round its grotesque girth a ribbon garter, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring. Perched on her hair is a small straw hat with a high silk crown from which a veil hangs down her back. On the wall behind her is a picture: 'Nina', a small thin man kneels before the stout and terrified Nina (who believes him to be the ghost of her lover)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Van-Buchells garters
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Martin Van Butchell, 1735-1812 -- Literature: allusion to Berkeley's Nina, or, The Madness of Love -- Pictures amplifying subject: Nina -- Furniture: armchairs -- Foot stools -- Clothing: garters.
Publisher:
Pubd. Octr. 3d, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
