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Print made by: James Gillray

Published by: Hannah Humphrey
Title
Advantages of wearing Muslin Dresses!-
Description
English: After the title: 'dedicated to the serious attention of the Fashionable Ladies of Great Britain'. An enormously fat lady flings up arms, legs, and tea-cup in terror, as her flimsy gown catches fire from a red-hot poker falling from the grate (left). She, a stiff military officer, and a young woman sit at a round tea-table. The man sits paralysed, alarmed and helpless, spilling his tea; the girl has added to the calamity by knocking over the tea-table so that urn and tea-pot spill their scalding contents, and crockery slides towards the floor. A loutish footman enters (right) but has stopped dead, dropping a dish of muffins. A frightened cat scampers from the hearth-rug. Over the chimney-piece is a picture of Vesuvius in eruption. The woman is a monstrous creature with bare arms and elaborately dressed hair (or wig), a patterned carpet completes the design. Cf. BMSat 9956. 15 February 1802.
Hand-coloured etching.
Date 1802
date QS:P571,+1802-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
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Height: 258 millimetres

Width: 358 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.1079
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VIII, 1947)

Grego, 'Gillray', p. 289. Wright and Evans, No. 513. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-1079
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