A Fashionable Information for Ladies in the Country
Satirical Etching
1795 (etched)
1795 (etched)
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| Place of origin |
People who lived all the year in the country could learn of the latest trends in London from fashion plates. This caricature presents itself like a fashion plate to poke fun at the gullibility of country dwellers hungry for information. This caricature is also taking lampooning the fashion for clinging, figure-hugging draperies.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | A Fashionable Information for Ladies in the Country (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Etching coloured by hand |
| Brief description | 'A Fashionable Information for Ladies in the Country', hand-coloured etching, London, 1795 |
| Physical description | Satirical etching |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Frank A. Gibson |
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| Summary | People who lived all the year in the country could learn of the latest trends in London from fashion plates. This caricature presents itself like a fashion plate to poke fun at the gullibility of country dwellers hungry for information. This caricature is also taking lampooning the fashion for clinging, figure-hugging draperies. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.1262-1990 |
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| Record created | June 6, 2007 |
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