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Image Title: Advantages Of Wearing Muslin Dresses!, 1802

Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, engraver

Date: 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.

Subjects: Accidents--Great Britain--1800-1810
Fire--1800-1810
Women--Clothing & dress--Great Britain--1800-1810

Original Media: Etching

Collections: Cartoon Prints, British » more info...

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