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- Published / Created:
- [4 November 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.11.04.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her high heels are visible beneath the hem of a quilted skirt. To the left is a chair beneath a casement window, while a bird in a cage is suspended from the ceiling on the right
- Alternative Title:
- Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
- Description:
- Title from item. and Eight lines of verse in 2 columns below image beginning: "The hoity head & toity waist, As now they're all the ton ..."
- Publisher:
- Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Corsets, Fashion, Wife abuse, Couples, Shoemakers, Workshops, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Furniture, and Interiors
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].