PUBLISHER: Pubd. 19th Jany. 1778 by W. Humphrey.
MEDIUM: Engraving, hand-colored,
DATE: 1778.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 3/4 x 13 1/4" (19.7 x 33.7 cm).
DESCRIPTION: A satirical fashion engraving depicting a woman using an odd contraption to squish herself into a corset, making her appear both thinner and taller as the corset is tightened around her. A segment of the additional text below title reads, "Just arrived Monsr. Titus Shape who has had the honour of performing on above 2000 ladies of the first nobility in France, now on Cock Spur Street, London, has imported a large assortment of Figure Frames, Sweating Stools, Fumigators, Inflaters, Antiflatulents, and Reducers; by the use of which (in one month only) he forms or alters all manner of shapes so perfectly as to render pads, plumpers, corks, tight strays and rollers totally needless...."
ADDITIONAL INFO:
CONDITION: Generally good condition, save a tear in left margin repaired at one time with tape. Some creasing within image.
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