BIB_ID
282030
Accession number
MA 7282
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
Published
London : Publish'd February 26th. 1810. by H. Humphrey, 27 St James's Street, [1810]
Description
1 print : etching, hand colored ; image: 257 x 214 mm; trimmed sheet: 278 x 216 mm
Notes
Formerly housed with MA 2911.
No. 1 of a series of 3 plates showing the progress of a lady's toilet.
No. 1 of a series of 3 plates showing the progress of a lady's toilet.
Summary
Print shows a young woman standing at a dressing-table while a ladies' maid laces a pair of long stays. She wears a boudoir cap tied under the chin, and holds a flat ruler-shaped stick under the stays in front to regulate the operation. The stays fit closely over a pair of plain knickerbockers. On the dressing table are toilet-articles, bottles (two inscribed 'Milk of Roses' and 'Esprit de Lavande'), a rosary, a mask, a ticket inscribed 'Masquerade Argyll Street', and a lap-dog, looking at itself in the mirror.
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