The Duchess Blush, or, York flame

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Isaac Cruikshank
1756?-1811?
The Duchess Blush, or, York flame
etching, hand colored
image: 138 x 189 mm; plate mark 161 x 212 mm; sheet: 138 x 189 mm (trimmed)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 1684
Published: 
[London] : Pub. Decr. 6, 1791, by S. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly, London, [6 December 1791]
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Printmaker from BM Satires.
Below image: Price 6d color'd.
Libray's copy trimmed to image, with loss of price.

Summary: 

Above is a ribbon, the central part of which is stiffened by a spring, described as 'Vanbuchel's Spring Garter'. Below are 'Two Views of the exact Size of the Duchess's Shoe': A low-heeled shoe with a pointed toe, decorated with jewels, and a tracing of the sole of the same shoe, which is 5 1/2 in. long. Cf. BM Satires.

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