Fashionable convenience!! [art original] / Woodward delin.

Published/Created:

[England]
[ca. 1799]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : watercolor with pen and black ink on wove paper ; image 21.5 x 18.2 cm, on sheet 25.5 x 20.9 cm

Notes:

Signed by the artist; title from caption in the artist's hand.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Purchased from Abbott and Holder, 3 January 1997.
Captions inscribed in black ink in image.
For further information, consult library staff.

Abstract:

A mother dressed in a poke bonnet and long loose-fitting white dress holds the hand of her young daughter who wears a blue sash and feather plumed hat. The child says "Mamma I want some money to buy cakes" while her mother responds "How can you be so vulgar child, have not I told you a hundred times I never wear pockets!"

Associated Names:

Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809 [Artist]

Topics:

Bonnets
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1790-1800
Girls
Mothers

Language:

English

Genre:

Ink drawings -- British -- 18th century
Watercolors -- British -- 18th century

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Call Number:

Drawings W87 no. 19 Box D175

Orbis Record:

10183833

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr00182

Citation:

G.M. Woodward, Fashionable Convenience!!. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10697348

PID:

digcoll:549149