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2.
Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies, that they may be immediately supplied

Creator:
Gibbon, Martha Morling, 1772-1832
Published / Created:
[approximately 1825]
Call Number:
File 66 825 G439
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Corsets and Selling
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Lloyd Gibbon, most respectfully notices to the Ladies, that they may be immediately supplied with her Anatomical Stays, which have come under the inspection of the most eminent physicians and surgeons ...

3.
1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

Creator:
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1812]
Call Number:
812.00.00.129+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A toilet scene. The Regent stands in profile to the right at his dressing-table, rouging his cheek with a small brush. An attendant, resembling McMahon, laces the stays which in front resemble a waistcoat; he tugs at the lace, standing on a low stool...
Alternative Title:
Regency a la mode
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, and Dionysus (Greek deity),
Subject (Topic):
Dressing tables, Cosmetics, Corsets, Stools, Mirrors, Monkeys, Wigs, Debt, Sconces, Clocks & watches, Dogs, and Urination
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > 1812, or, Regency a la mode [graphic]

4.
Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1777] and [printed ca. 1812]
Call Number:
777.00.00.10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who i...
Alternative Title:
Fashion before ease
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

5.
The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 January 1805]
Call Number:
805.01.01.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly, sharp-featured virago, with skinny neck and muscular arms, sits directed to the right, furiously kicking and shaking her left fist at the old-fashioned looking-glass which stands on a muslin-covered dressing-table. The glass has been shat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Mirrors, Dressing tables, Corsets, Anger, Feathers, Draperies, and Bottles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]

6.
A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
[ca. July 1801]
Call Number:
Drawings N736 no. 7 Box D205
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with ...
Description:
Title from note in artist's hand above image.
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [art original].

7.
A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

Creator:
Nixon, John, -1818, artist
Published / Created:
July 1801.
Call Number:
801.07.00.05+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An old woman dressed in her nightcap and gown, her one breast hanging exposed from her gown, climbs into bed in which her husband already lies. She expels gas from her bottom in the direction of the candle on the ground in front of the fireplace with ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pub'd by Wm. Holland, Oxford street
Subject (Topic):
Bed, Boxes, Candlesticks, Canopy beds, Cats, Corsets, Couples, Fireplaces, Flatulence, Single women, and Sleepwear
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A patent extinguisher, being a safe & easy mode of putting out a candle [graphic].

8.
Fashion before ease, or, A good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form [graphic]

Creator:
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 January 1793]
Call Number:
793.01.02.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Britannia (left), a buxom young woman, clasps the trunk of a large oak, while Paine tugs with both hands at her stay-lace, placing a large foot on her posteriors. He wears blue and buff with a tricolour cockade on his bonnet rouge. From his coat pock...
Alternative Title:
Good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 2d, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Subject (Topic):
Britannia (Symbolic character), Corsets, Scissors & shears, Liberty cap, Shields, Spears, and Olive branches
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Fashion before ease, or, A good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form [graphic]

9.
The last shift [graphic].

Published / Created:
published as the act directs, 21 Dec. 1792.
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 214. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A courtesan stands at a wash-tub, washing her last shift. She wears a cap over ringlets in curl-papers and a tattered petticoat, a shawl covers her naked shoulders. The room is squalid, with plaster falling from the bricks. Across the fireplace stock...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Courtesans, Interiors, Wash tubs, Fireplaces, Hosiery, Corsets, and Cats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The last shift [graphic].

10.
Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

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 hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
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].

11.
Tight lacing, or, Hold fast behind [graphic] / MD [monogram].

Creator:
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing ...
Alternative Title:
Hold fast behind
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by M Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Beds, Bedrooms, and Dressing tables
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Hold fast behind [graphic] / MD [monogram].

12.
[Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]

Creator:
Hibbart, William, 1725-1808, printmaker
Published / Created:
30 Dec. 1776, as the act directs.
Call Number:
49 3069
Collection Title:
Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robb...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > [Margery Inkle dressing her hair] [graphic]

13.
The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 88. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistc...
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

14.
The protecting macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 86. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) in shirt and breeches is being laced into stays by a shorter man who stands behind him. The taller man is knock-kneed and has some resemblance to the Duke of Grafton. On the ground is a chased goblet to which a label is attached, "Dupli...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act Octr. 9, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Corsets, and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The protecting macaroni [graphic].

15.
The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.5 plate 9
Collection Title:
Leaf 88. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistc...
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

16.
The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 October 1772]
Call Number:
772.10.22.03
Collection Title:
Leaf 88. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistc...
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

17.
The protecting macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.4 plate 24
Collection Title:
Leaf 86. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) in shirt and breeches is being laced into stays by a shorter man who stands behind him. The taller man is knock-kneed and has some resemblance to the Duke of Grafton. On the ground is a chased goblet to which a label is attached, "Dupli...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act Octr. 9, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Corsets, and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The protecting macaroni [graphic].