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The man of feeling, in search of indispensibles : a scene in the little French milleners [sic] / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815

The man of feeling, in search of indispensibles : a scene in the little French milleners [sic] / Js. Gillray, invt. & fect.

[London] : Pubd. Feby. 12th. 1800, by H. Humphrey 27 St James's Street, [1800]
etching, hand colored
image: 240 x 360 mm; plate mark: 260 x 363 mm; sheet: 270 x 380 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.509
Notes
Below caption title: NB. A number of disputes having arisen in the Beau Monde, respecting the Exact Situation of the Ladies Indispensibles (or new Invented Pockets) whether they were placed at the Ancle, or in a more elegible situation, - the above Search took place, in order to determine precisely the Longitude of these inestimable conveniences.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows the interior of a milliner's shop, where several girls sit sewing round a large table. In the foreground the elephantine Prince of Orange kneels, feeling the leg of two girls on his right and left; they throw up their arms and scream. The others look on, amused or astonished. The mistress of the establishment enters by the door at right, elaborately and indecorously dressed, a feathered bonnet in her hand. On the wall hang cloaks, feathers, a hat, &c, and on a shelf is a bust wearing a feathered hat. A placard: 'le Magasin de Lancastre pour Embellir les Dames Angloise [sic] - Indispencibles'. One of these pockets is on the ground, a girl works at another. They are flat trimmed bags on ribbons, with vertical slits.

Associated names
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
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