A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton holding an arrow, standing next to a obelisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item. and Date supplied by curator.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Memento mori, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, Pride, and Skeletons
A figure of a woman, divided vertically, shown on the right as a skeleton, standing next to a obleiisk inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, skull and bones at its base. Her left side shows her as a fashionably dressed woman, holding a fan decorated with a scene showing a man and woman dancing; she stands in a park with a high border hedge. Next to her lie playing cards, a book on gaming, and vol.1 of Romances and novels. In the background stands an urn on a pedestal in a garden
Alternative Title:
Essay on woman
Description:
Title from item., Variant state, without plate number, of No. 3793 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Misogyny, Pride in literature, Pride and vanity, Death, Obelisks, Playing cards, and Pride
