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| Keywords: Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! by James Gillray.jpg 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 1802-02-15 1 print etching hand-colored mm 253 355 Institution NPG D12780 No known restriction on publication other versions File Muslin-Dresses-Gillray jpeg PD-old-100 James Gillray 19th-century caricatures in the National Portrait Gallery London 1800s dresses 1802 cartoons Accidents in art English muffins in art Females with white dresses in art Fire in art Fireplaces in art Muslin dresses Sitting females in art | ||||
