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Title: Fashionables of 1817
Creator: George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1817
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: After hostilities between England and France quieted in 1815, French clothing designs increasingly influenced English fashions. In this print, Cruikshank satirizes the strange stoop Englishwomen affected in order to accentuate their decolletage. [Helmreich, Life in London]
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 2735; Douglas 1467; Cohn 1110 ii/ii; British Museum 12949
Inscription: Recto, in stone below design, "G. Cruikshank. fect." at l.l.; "Pubd. by SW Fores 50 Piccadilly Augt. 4th. 1817" at l.r.; collector's stamp in black ink at l.r.c.
Type: image
Format: Print Lithograph with hand coloring
Form/Genre: Print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4779n9x8
1989.21.130
Subject: Caricatures; dandies; fashion (concept); clothing & dress

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