"The boxing scene from 'The Romp', Act II, between Young Cockney (left) and Priscilla Tomboy. They face each other with clenched fists. Young Cockney is fashionably dressed and portly, Priscilla's large hat and mittens are on the floor. Behind her (right) stands Captain Sightley in regimentals and Miss La Blond wearing a large hat which conceals her face. Behind them on the extreme right is a folding screen. Framed pictures decorate the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in lower left of image with monogram RR [first 'R' reversed] delin., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Watermark in center of sheet., and In pencil on verso: RR [R Rushworth?].
Publisher:
Publisehed [sic] Jany 3d. 1786, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No. 3, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Barnes, Mrs., active 1782-1808., Barrymore, Mr. 1759-1830. (William),, Dodd, James William, 1740?-1796, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, and Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812.
Subject (Topic):
Boxing, Military uniforms, British, Theaters, and Theatrical productions
"A companion print to BMSat 6874. A number of ladies wearing enormous hats and inflated petticoats as in BMSat 6874, are being, or have been, fitted with the puffed-out gauze cages which made the fashionable silhouette (the 'fortification bosom') project extravagantly at the breast. Some, with breasts exposed, wait to be fitted. A thin lady on the extreme left looks at herself in an oval wall-mirror, while the fitter arranges her dress; another advances, holding a large pair of balloon-like pads. One with an enormous projection beneath her chin is about to leave the room by a door on the extreme right, she looks round with a triumphant smile. All wear hats with enormous brims, some circular, some drooping and bonnet-shaped. A gigantic circular hat, larger than an umbrella, is suspended from the centre of the ceiling. In the foreground a dog, its hind-quarters shaved, and long thick hair on its neck and chest, burlesques the fashion."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Monogram 'RR' refers to Rushworth? See British Museum catalogue., and Watermark in center of sheet.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany.1st, 1786, by S.W. Fores, at the Caracature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
