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- Published / Created:
- [1797?]
- Call Number:
- 796.02.15.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed woman sits (right) in profile, in an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her as seen through the window of the well-appointed sitting room. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly sucks the breast thus conveniently laid bare. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. On the wall behind her is a large picture, 'Maternal Love': a seated woman suckles an infant. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet. A patterned carpet covers the floor
- Alternative Title:
- Convenience of modern dress
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date from contemporary ms. note., After Gillray., Unsigned copy in reverse of No. 8897 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Watermark: C. Taylor., and Mss. notation in lower margin, dated '1797' in black ink.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Breast feeding, Carriages & coaches, Clothing & dress, Coach drivers, Hats, Infants, Jewelry, Interiors, Mothers, Parlors, Rugs, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fashionable mamma, or, The convenience of modern dress vide the pocket hole, &c. [graphic]
