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Modern defence or the siege of Fort Phyllis.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: George Townley Stubbs (?)

Published by: George Townley Stubbs
Title
Modern defence or the siege of Fort Phyllis.
Description
English: A lady stands on a mound in profile to the left; a young military officer (left) fires a cannon from an embrasure, while another fires a trench-mortar at her from behind. Her dress caricatures the fashion for a very projecting breast, and a large protuberance at the back of the petticoats. She wears a hat with an enormous brim, her hands are in a large fur mutt. She resembles Mrs. Fitzherbert. At the foot of the mound a Cupid uses his arrow to undermine the ground on which she stands. Beneath the title is engraved:



'In vain Before the Fair one Arms,
With Breastworks high her panting charms,
In vain Behind yon Mount is plac'd,
Which Wits may say is Bum proof cas'd,
If parts More Weak to guard she fails,
Where artful Love by Mine assails.
Tho' Fox's Brush as Muff may warm
And snug conceal what all must charm,
Guard well that Pass: there lies the Proof
Jove! dearly lov'd a well Thatch'd Roof.' 16 May 1786


Etching
Depicted people Associated with: Maria Anne Fitzherbert
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 231 millimetres
Width: 268 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.294
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

For these fashions see BMSats 6874, 7099, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-294
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