My Brothers Breeches – or Not quite the Thing

Charles Williams

My Brothers Breeches – or Not quite the Thing

London, S W Fores, march 1816

Etching

Original hand colouring

340 x 240 mm

Trimmed to platemark

£220

Scene in a well-furnished dressing-room. One buxom young woman raises her skirt, hands on hips, to show another that she is wearing a pair of knee-breeches, rather too tight. She says: “There Maria I think I make as good a Man as my Brother.” Maria leans towards her impressively: “No indeed Cousin! I should think not Quite.”