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[Modern woman, 1781]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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[Modern woman, 1781]
Description
English: A phaeton, whose small body is raised on springs high above the wheels, drawn by four long-tailed horses, absurdly small in proportion to the carriage. It is driven by a lady standing up and wielding an enormously long whip; next her sits a man without a hat, his hands held up, his face contorted with terror. The lady wears a hat of rather masculine fashion, with two erect ostrich feathers, a short coat, waistcoat, and ruffled skirt. On the side of the carriage is a crest - a stag's head in an oval, with the motto "Fashion".


Beneath the design is engraved:

"Talk not to me Sir of yr old Fashion'd rules,
E'en laugh'd at by Children, the Joke of the Schools:
They might do for yr meek minded Matrons of old,
Who knew no use of Spirit but thier Servants to scold.
But for me Z------ds & Blood am not I fit to command,
I can swear Sir, & What's more drive four Horses in Hand." 29 June 1781


Hand-coloured etching
Depicted people Representation of: Agnes Townsend
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 176 millimetres
Width: 261 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.83
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

The signature suggests that the lady may be Agnes Townshend, a noted courtesan, known as vis-à-vis Townshend, see BMSat 5416, a noted whip, who drove her phaeton and four all over the country. H. Bleackley, 'Ladies Fair and Frail', p. 282. See also BMSat 5375. For the signature cf. BMSat 5937, 5938.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-83
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