A very fat woman on the left of the print faces her very thin counterpart on the right, in a room where long shadows indicate the morning hour. Both ladies wear the style of hat known as a calash (introduced in 1765), that on the left nearly round and the one on the right angular and ribbed. The woman on the left sits in an armchair with one foot on a stool as cats play in the bonnet dropped near her chair, while the woman on the right holds a fan and sits erect on a folding stool, her cork rump protruding behind her and a dog playing on her broad brimmed hat
Alternative Title:
Calash lady's and Calash ladies
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 11, V.2.
"A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 11 of: Bunbury album.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1788, by J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[1801?]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 10 Box D170
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A woman models several articles of clothing including a white puffy muslin spencer jacket and a very caricatured poke bonnet. The brim of the poke bonnet features a distortion of excessive length and concludes in a sharp point and the rear portion consists of extra fabric that sags off of the wearer's head
Description:
Title written in black ink in artist's hand below image., Signed by the artist's signature in black ink in lower left., and For further information, consult library staff.
Volume 2, page 63. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A woman in a bonnet hunching over and pulling her cloak around her against the high wind and rain, blowing her skirts from the left; oval design after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title from later state., Early state, before addition of title and before alterations to publication year and publisher's street address in imprint. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.2427., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 63 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand: The storm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs April 7th, 1787, by J. Jones, No. 63 Great Portland Street
