A soldier approaches an open trunk watched by a group of men wearing nun head-dresses in the boudoir of a fashionable lady who sits at her vanity table. Coloured engraving, ca. 1800-1820.

Date:
1800-1820
Reference:
589943i
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Description

A fat man in a dressing gown and night cap with salapettes clutches a bottle. An old woman approaches from the right pulling a face as a young boy looks out at the viewer while pointing to her. The woman at her vanity table holds up an eye-glass while clutching roses in her left hand. The soldier dressed in a plumed hat and striped breeches holds a note with the lettering 'Miss Fleshille'(?)

Publication/Creation

1800-1820

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 22 c 32.5 cm

References note

Not found in British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1978

Reference

Wellcome Collection 589943i

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