"James Allen, a woman, standing whole length in profile to left, dressed in man's clothes, holding a hat in her left hand, her right hand reaching out towards wife Abigail, standing in profile to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from captions below images., Design consists of two images side by side, each individually titled., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Pencil sketch of shoes and a ribbon[?] on verso.
Publisher:
Pub. by I.S. Thomas, 2 York Street, Covent Garden
Subject (Name):
Allen, Abigail Naylor, and Allen, James, 1787-1829,
Title from the first line of verse below image., Publication date from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of part of image and possibly title at top of plate., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: See here presented to your view / A scene both frolicksome and true ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Bryer, engraver & printseller, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Cross dressing, Dressing tables, Fireplaces, Interiors, Mirrors, and Prostitutes
Famous flower of serving men and Lady turned serving man
Description:
Verse begins: "You beauteous ladies great and small,", Anonymous. By Laurence Price. See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Another edition (ESTC R176942) is signed "L.P."., In four columns with the title and two framed square woodcuts above the first two; the first woodcut is of a figure in profile, the second of a figure looking front; the columns are not separated by rules., Imprint below last column, in square brackets., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 42. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Sold at No. 42 Long Lane
Subject (Topic):
Household employees, Cross-dressing, and Cross dressing