A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830.

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A woman is turning a wheel which is tightening the string around a girl's waist in order to make it smaller. Coloured etching by W. Heath, ca. 1830. Credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)