File:Fashion-before-Ease-Gillray.jpeg

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English: Fashion before Ease;—or,—A good Constitution sacrificed for a Fantastick Form

G.W. invt. [Gillray f.]

SUMMARY: Cartoon showing Britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while Thomas Paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: Rights of Man. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: Thomas Pain, Staymaker from Thetford. Paris Modes, by express.

MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving, color

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Published by H. Humphrey, 1793.
Date
Source Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZCN4-6 (color film copy transparency), uncompressed archival TIFF version (38 MB), level color (pick white point), cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5.
Author
James Gillray  (1756–1815)  wikidata:Q520806 s:en:Author:James Gillray q:en:James Gillray
 
James Gillray
Alternative names
James Gilray; Gillay; Gillray
Description British caricaturist and engraver
Date of birth/death 13 August 1756 Edit this at Wikidata 1 June 1815 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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creator QS:P170,Q520806
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID cph.3j00006.
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1793 Cartoon showing Britannia in corset, as Thomas Paine tugs to pulls it tight

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