File:Bath stays or the lady's steel shapes (BM J,5.134).jpg
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[edit]Bath stays or the lady's steel shapes
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Bath stays or the lady's steel shapes |
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English: The interior of a blacksmith's smithy. On the anvil is a portion of a pair of stays, at which two smiths strike with hammers, one (l.) holding the stays by pincers. A third man (r.) is measuring a lady round the chest with a tape; she stands very upright in profile to the right, and wears a deeply pointed bodice over an underskirt projecting at the back in the fashionable manner; the upper part of her dress hangs on the wall behind her. She holds a closed fan in both hands, her hair is in a monstrous inverted pyramid, flanked by great curls and surmounted by feathers, see BMSat 5370, &c. Sections of a pair of steel corsets and the tools of a smithy lie on the floor. Pincers and horse-shoes hang on the wall. The forge with its fire is on the left On a shelf on the wall are bottles and covered jars, one marked "alose". 4 June 1777
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| Date | 1777 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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J,5.134 |
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) A satire on the tight-lacing which was accentuated when 'cork rumps' became fashionable. See BMSat 5381, &c. See also BMSat 5452, 5464, 4552 (1777). Walpole writes, 28 Mar. 1777, "There has been a young gentlewoman overturned and terribly bruised by her vulcanian stays. They now wear a steel busk down their middle and a rail of the same metal across their breasts." 'Letters', x. 31. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-134 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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