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| Keywords: Muslin-Dresses-Gillray.jpeg 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 MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored 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 Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8774 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08774u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB level color pick white point adjust black level cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1802-02-15 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication File Advantages of wearing muslin dresses by James Gillray jpg LOC-image cph 3g08774 PD-old-100 James Gillray Caricatures of the United Kingdom Accidents in art Females with white dresses in art Fire in art Fireplaces in art Muslin dresses 1802 cartoons Clothing of the United Kingdom 1800s dresses English muffins in art | ||||
