Parasols, for 1795 / Js. Gy. des. et fect.

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James Gillray
1756-1815
Parasols, for 1795 / Js. Gy. des. et fect.
etching
image: 32.5 x 23.5 cm; plate: 35.5 x 25 cm; sheet: 37.3 x 27 cm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Peel 2855
Published: 
[London] : H. Humphrey, 1795.
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Etching is slightly aquatinted.

Summary: 

A man and woman dressed in a burlesque of the fashion walk mincingly in back view. He leads her by the hand; she holds out in her left hand a tiny fringed parasol, the hinged stick bent at a right angle. Her small straw hat of masculine shape is trimmed with three enormous aigrettes of straw; her hair covers her back like a cape, and her dress hangs limply round her ankles. The man wears a hat with a round crown of usual size with an enormous brim curving upwards at the sides and bent down back and front, so that it covers his shoulders. He is thin and elongated, with tail-coat, long breeches, striped stockings, and half-boots of Hessian cut. In his right hand is a cane.

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