Following the fashion / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Following the fashion / Js. Gy. desn. et fect.
engraving
32.6 x 34.8 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2839
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1794.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to within plate mark.

Summary: 

Two women, one tall and pretty, except for her grotesque slimness, the other short and very stout, wear burlesqued versions of the new fashions.

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