A thin man standing in a bucket with a mop head for hair, and a thin woman with an upturned brush for a head. Etching, 1801, after T. Gearing.

  • Gearing, J., active 1801.
Date:
Jany. 5th 1801
Reference:
35244i
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Description

A caricature of the extravagant English fashions adopted by those called in France Incroyables and Merveilleuses. The woman wears the white Greek-style dress of the Merveilleuses

Publication/Creation

London (50 Piccadilly) : S.W. Fores, Jany. 5th 1801.

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 23.7 x 18.9 cm

Contributors

Lettering

A mop in a buck'et. A new broom. T. Gearing del. Folios of caracatures lent out for the evening.

References note

Not found in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires

Reference

Wellcome Collection 35244i

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