Subject (Topic): Corsets - Yale University Library Search Results

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].

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].

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]

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].

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].

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].

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].

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].

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