The Fashions of the Day or Time Past and Time Present.
Book Description
Soft-ground etching on wove paper, with original hand-colouring, small losses in corners of margin, all well outside the plate, slight cracking along right plate mark, a repaired crack in the centre left of the image, [not in BM Satires].
Dealer Notes
A social satire on the familiar theme of poking fun at the fashions of the day, in this instance highlighting the difference between the dark, heavy, cloth of the 18th century dress of the lady on the left, and the diaphanous, almost transparent, contemporary dress of the young lady on the right, with the witty wordplay of the caption above, ‘The Year (1740) a Ladys full dress of Bombazeen - The Year (1807) a Ladys undress of Bum-be-seen’. Below the main title is inscribed ‘Respectfully Dedicated to the Fashionable Editors of La Belle Assemblée _ Le Beau Monde &c &c’, clearly directing this barb towards the taste for anything French at the time.
Author
Woodward (George Moutard)
Date
1807
Publisher
Walker & Co.
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