File:1807-pseudo1740 Fashion-contrast Bombazine-pun.jpg
Original file (1,167 × 824 pixels, file size: 373 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]Description1807-pseudo1740 Fashion-contrast Bombazine-pun.jpg |
"The Fashions of the Day, or Time Past and Present, Respectfully dedicated to the Fashionable Editors of La Belle Assemblé, Le Beau Monde &c. &c.", an 1807 caricature engraved by Charles Williams after a drawing by Woodward, which presents an (exaggerated) contrast between "The Year 1740: A Lady's full dress of Bombazeen" (i.e. bombazine or bombasine, a heavy corded fabric) and "The year 1807: A Lady's undress of Bum-be-seen" Note that "undress" didn't mean anything naughty -- there's a definition of it here.[1] In pursuing his goal of satirizing certain features of contemporary 1807 fashions, the caricaturist did not really draw a fair comparison between the styles of 1740 and 1807, since a young Regency fashionable is juxtaposed here to a sedate middle-aged pre-Regency lady (perhaps in mourning), and such features of mid-18th century dress as tight stiff stays with extremely low necklines were not included (also, the "1740" costume actually seems to be somewhat of a pastiche with 17th century styles). (Women's fashions of the Empire/Regency weren't always "sensible", but their excesses do seem to be more in accord overall with the spirit of the 21st century than the fashion excesses of most other periods between the 16th century and World War I, which tended to go in for such things as huge hoopskirts and tight corsets...) Bibliographic information found on the Library of Congress site: TITLE: The fashions of the day, or time past and time present / Woodward delt. ; W. sculpt. CALL NUMBER: PC 3 - 1807--Fashions of the day ... (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-59625 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Print shows a woman from "the year (1740) a Ladys full dress of Bombazeen", wearing a dark, padded, armor-like dress contrasted to a woman from "the year (1807) a Ladys undress of Bum-be-seen" wearing a light, revealing, diaphanous dress. MEDIUM: 1 print : aquatint, hand-colored. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [London] : Published by Walker, No. 7 Cornhill, 1807 Nov. 2d. CREATOR: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), ca. 1760-1809, artist. NOTES: Title from item. "Respectfuly Dedicated to the Fashionable Editors of La Belle Assemblée - Le Beau Monde &c &c." Forms part of: British Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS:
FORMAT: Then & now comparisons 1800-1810. Satires (Visual works) British 1800-1810. Aquatints British Hand-colored 1800-1810. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b07367 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b07367 CARD #: 2003675458 |
||
Date | |||
Source |
|
||
Author | Engraved by Charles Williams after a drawing by George Moutard Woodward | ||
Other versions |
|
Licensing
[edit]Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. | |
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. |
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 19:28, 1 July 2006 | 1,167 × 824 (373 KB) | Churchh (talk | contribs) | "The Fashions of the Day, or Time Past and Present, Respectfully dedicated to the Fashionable Editors of ''La Belle Assemblé'', ''Le Beaus Monde'' &c. &c.", an 1807 caricature engraved by Charles Williams after a drawing by Woodward, which presents an (e |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 7 pages use this file:
- George Moutard Woodward
- User:Mattes/Studies/People
- File:The Fashions of the Day – or Time Past and Time Present- The Year (1740) a Lady's Full Dress of Bombazeen – The Year (1808) Lady's Undress of Bum-be-seen MET DP808233.jpg
- File:The fashions of the day, or time past and time present - Woodward delt. ; W. sculpt. LCCN2003675458.jpg
- File:The fashions of the day, or time past and time present - Woodward delt. ; W. sculpt. LCCN2003675458.tif
- File:The fashions of the day, or time past and time present LCCN2003675458.jpg
- File:The fashions of the day, or time past and time present LCCN2003675458.tif
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on it.wikipedia.org
- Usage on pt.wikipedia.org
Structured data
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
2 November 1807Gregorian
image/jpeg
89734f913b87817c981fc856eab681301c9c2b93
382,015 byte
824 pixel
1,167 pixel
- 1807 cartoons
- George Moutard Woodward
- Engravings of women
- Portrait paintings of women at full length
- 1740s fashion
- Fashion in 1807
- Females with white dresses in art
- Females with black dresses in art
- Paintings of women holding folding fans
- Empire silhouette
- Young and old in art
- Décolleté in art
- Parasols in art
- Puns
- Bonnets in art
- Women facing right in art
- Standing females in art
- La Belle Assemblée, 1807
- Clothing of the United Kingdom
- Mourning clothing
- Age comparisons of fashion in art
- 1800s dresses
- Transparent clothing in art
- Bombazine
- British Cartoon Prints Collection