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Female Whimsicalities   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: William Dent

Published by: James Aitken
Title
Female Whimsicalities
Description
English: Two ladies stand back to back, one (left) inscribed 'Prominence, 1785', the other, 'Prominence, 1793'. The former has the contour of 1785 (see BMSat 6874, &c), with vast protuberances below the chin in front and below the waist behind. The other, whose bust still projects, but in a less exaggerated manner, has an enormous protuberance in front, far exceeding that of any pregnancy. One wears a wide-brimmed hat (see BMSat 7099, &c), the other a small hat trimmed with large bunches of ribbon; a piece of drapery passing over the crown meets under the chin. Between and behind the pair is a smaller figure, a girl standing in profile to the left, wearing a high-waisted dress which falls limply to the ground. She is 'Virgin Shape'. Beneath the design:



'Since all confess the nat'ral Form Divine,
What need to Swell before or add behind?' 16 May 1793


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1793
date QS:P571,+1793-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 244 millimetres
Width: 351 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1902,0825.3
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)

See BMSat 8388, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-0825-3
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