Inflating a Lady. The Toilet of a Modern Belle.

 (John Phillips pseud Sharpshooter)

Inflating a Lady. The Toilet of a Modern Belle.

London, S. Gans July 1829

Etching

Original hand-colouring

265 x 360 mm

£240

A fashionable young lady stands complacently in her dressing room. She wears an indecently decolletee dress, with a short full skirt and enormous balloon like sleeves, one of which is being inflated by her maid, who blows into it through a tobacco pipe. Her hair is dressed in tall upstanding loops, and in the background is her dressing table, with four tobacco pipes lying on it and a mirror. A satire on the absurd fashions of the time. BM 15965.