A fashionably dressed young woman, adorned with feathers, is attacked by flocks of birds on the lawn of an estate. Another young woman flees towards the door of the house in the distance
A muzzled bear sits up, as if begging, on a fat woman who lies on her back. She says: "Gemini! what a Weight! my poor dear Mr Dripping was quite a Feather to him". She wears a ribbon with a miniature portrait of a man around her neck; her hat lies on ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published Decbr. 20th, 1801, by S. Howitt, Panton Street
Subject (Topic):
Animal attacks, Bears, Dogs, Jewelry, Miniatures (Paintings), and Obesity
In a landscape setting, two young women fashionably attired, and with their elaborate hairstyles adorned with ostrich plumes, flee towards the left pursued by two angry and plucked ostriches. The foremost bird lunges at the feathers on the head of one...
Alternative Title:
Feathered fair in a fright
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Ostriches, Animal attacks, and Dogs
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd May 29th, 1773.
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.05.29.03+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An illustration to Scarron's 'Roman Comique' (1651), Book II, ch. xx. The scene is the room of an inn. Ragotin, almost bald, sits in an upright chair wearing a long sword and jack boots; his legs do not reach the ground. The ram (left), on its hind-l...
Description:
Title etched below image; letter "n" in "interrupted" is etched backwards.
