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Matrimonial Comforts Sketch 6 A Fashionable Suit., [1800]

 Item — Box: F741.5(R) Box 1
Reference code: F741.5(R)/17
Matrimonial Comforts Sketch 6 A Fashionable Suit., [1800]
Matrimonial Comforts Sketch 6 A Fashionable Suit., [1800]

Scope and Contents

Engraving (coloured impression.) A tailor (left) holds out a mirror to an ugly and disgusted customer, who wears a coat of ‘Jean de Bry’ pattern, with short bulky breeches and slippers. The customer says: “Why have you put me a hump upon each shoulder – and here’s a pair of Dutchman’s breeches that would hold provision for a marching regiment – well I tell you what Master Taylor D…m me if I would go to our Club such a figure for fifty Pounds!” The tailor, alarmed, answers: “Made entirely to your Lady’s Orders your Honour I asshure you – she said now you was married you should look like the rest of the world.” Partial description from the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Vol. VII.

Dates

  • Creation: [1800]

Conditions Governing Access

Physical item available by appointment in our Reading Room

Extent

1 Item(s)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository

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