File:Family canvas, or dresss antient and modern (BM 1868,0808.5534).jpg

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Family canvas, or dresss antient and modern   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Townley Stubbs

Published by: George Townley Stubbs
Title
Family canvas, or dresss antient and modern
Description
English: A fashionably dressed lady and gentleman are seated facing each other, a tea-table between them. She wears an enormous 'derrière' and a projecting bosom; a round hat with a huge brim surrounded by a curtain frill of lace, through which her eyes and much-curled hair are visible. He wears a tight-fitting coat with a high collar, large buttons, and projecting shirt-frill. His hair or wig is in a looped queue with large side-curls. He looks at himself in a pocket-mirror with a satisfied air. His cane and round hat are on a chair behind him.


The 'antient' dresses are those of the three quarter length portraits on the wall: in the centre are a gentleman and lady standing together in early Georgian dress, each holds a crook, a bird sits on the lady's finger. This is flanked by a lady (left) in quasi-Elizabethan dress, wearing a conical hat, a ruff, and a hooped petticoat in the form of a cylinder; and a man (right) wearing a high hat, cloak, slashed doublet, and breeches, holding a hooded hawk. 16 May 1786


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Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 232 millimetres
Width: 264 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5534
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

For other satires on feminine fashions see BMSats 6874, 7099, &c. For the ultra-fashionable men's dress of the period see BMSats 6855, 7021, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5534
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