Advantages of wearing muslin dresses!,James Gillray,1802,fat lady,Great Britain

Title: Advantages of wearing muslin dresses! / Js. Gillray,inv: & ft.
Creator(s): Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver
Date Created/Published: [London] : H. Humphrey, 1802 Feby 15th.
Summary: A fat lady, sitting with a man and woman at a tea table, reacts in horror as a hot poker from the fire falls on her dress and sets it on fire. The man sits helplessly while the second woman upsets the table in her alarm. A butler, entering the room, drops a plate of muffins, and a cat scampers away from the fire. A painting of Mt. Vesuvius hangs over the fireplace.
Notes:
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: Gillray and the Art of Caricature.
Catalog of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8, no. 9933
Subjects:
Women--Clothing & dress--Great Britain--1800-1810.
Accidents--Great Britain--1800-1810.
Fire--1800-1810.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1800-1810.
Etchings--Hand-colored--1800-1810.
Bookmark /2001695084/
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