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A milliner's shop.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A milliner's shop.
Description
English: The interior of a shop in Windsor; Windsor Castle (right) is seen through the open sash-window of a parlour behind the shop. The print illustrates a quotation from Peter Pindar engraved beneath the design:



'The modern bard says Tom, sublimely sings
Of Virtuous, gracious, good, uxorious, Kings
Who love their Wives so constant from their Heart
Who down at Windsor daily go a shopping
Their Heads so lovely into Houses popping,
And doing wonders in the hagling Art.
And why, in God's name, should not Queens & Kings
Purchase a Comb, or Corkscrew, Lace for Cloaks,
Edging for Caps, or Tape for Apron-Strings,
Or Pins, or Bobbin, cheap as other Folks.
Reader: to make thine Eyes with wonder Stare
Farthings are not beneath the Royal Care!
Pindars Ode upon Ode.'
['Works', 1778, pp. 342-3.]

A long counter extends across the greater part of the design. The Queen is seated buying tape, which she holds appraisingly, looking with a satisfied smile to one of the Princesses seated on her left. The King stands on her right. Two fashionably dressed ladies stand in the foreground (left) in conversation. Two others make a purchase at the right end of the counter, one turning her head to look at a device for extending a skirt which she is trying on. The back wall is lined with boxes, &c. Above these are hung specimens of the fashionable petticoat inflators, a hat, &c. In the foreground a little girl holds an enormous muff; a dog, partly shaved in the French manner, barks at a cat which stands on a band-box with its back arched. In the back parlour of the shop (left) two women sit at a table sewing; a man sits between them threading a needle. The three shopmen behind the counter are elegantly dressed young men. 'Split farthing Milliner to her [Majesty]' is inscribed in large letters over the entrance to the parlour or work-room. 24 March 1787


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Associated with: Charlotte, Queen of George III
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 391 millimetres
Width: 510 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.352
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938) The print is a satire on the King and Queen, and on the fashions of the day for extended petticoats and large muffs (see BMSat 6874, &c). It is also an interesting view of a shop interior. For the Queen's supposed miserliness see BMSat 7836, &c.

Reproduced, Paston, pl. clxxii.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-352
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