The fashionable mamma, or, The convenience of modern dress / Js. Gy. des. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
The fashionable mamma, or, The convenience of modern dress / Js. Gy. des. et fect.
hand colored etching
image: 34 x 24 cm; sheet: 35.1 x 25.5 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2725
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey 1796
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to plate mark.

Summary: 

A fashionably dressed woman sits (left) in profile to the right, on an upright chair, while a carriage waits for her. Her loose dress, high to the neck, has two embroidered slits to reveal the breasts. A pretty, buxom nurse holds out an infant, who eagerly nurses. She wears a turban with two erect feathers, and short sleeves; her gloved right hand holds a closed fan. Through a high sash-window is seen a corner of the waiting coach, a footman holding open the door, a fat coachman on the box. The coach, hammer-cloth, and the lady's chair are decorated with a baron's coronet.

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