File:Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! by James Gillray.jpg
Original file (2,400 × 1,744 pixels, file size: 2.06 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q520806 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: Advantages of wearing Muslin Dresses ! — dedicated to the serious attention of the Fashionable Ladies of Great Britain
Js. Gillray, inv: & ft. SUMMARY: A fat lady, sitting with a man and woman at a tea table, reacts in horror as a hot poker from the fire falls on her dress and sets it on fire. The man sits helplessly while the second woman upsets the table in her alarm. A butler, entering the room, drops a plate of muffins, and a cat scampers away from the fire. A painting of Mt. Vesuvius hangs over the fireplace. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : H. Humphrey, 1802 Feby 15th. According to Wright & Evans, Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray (1851, OCLC 59510372), p. 466, "Muslin dresses had become very fashionable at the period when this caricature was published, and several disastrous results of accidental ignition gave to this print a peculiar air of truthfulness. It may be that those interested in the print trade encouraged the production of what was likely to remove prestige from its rival." |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
15 February 1802 date QS:P571,+1802-02-15T00:00:00Z/11 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | 1 print: etching, hand-colored | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 253 mm (9.96 in); width: 355 mm (13.97 in) dimensions QS:P2048,253U174789 dimensions QS:P2049,355U174789 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q238587 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
NPG D12780 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
National Portrait Gallery: NPG D12780
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
No known restriction on publication. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions | File:Muslin-Dresses-Gillray.jpeg |
Licensing
[edit]
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 04:16, 30 March 2009 | 2,400 × 1,744 (2.06 MB) | Dcoetzee (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description=This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Gallery, London website using a special tool. This description is for the initial mass upload, and they will be updated to be image-specific in a se |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 3 pages use this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|