File:Breast-work, or female-fortification. (BM 1868,0808.5487).jpg

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Breast-work, or female-fortification.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
Breast-work, or female-fortification.
Description
English: A lady stands, directed slightly to the right, her hands in a muff. She wears a wide-brimmed hat and projecting petticoat, which are only slightly if at all caricatured. But round her breast in place of the fashionable projecting gauze, is a curving line of angular fortifications in masonry, from which guns project. Beneath the fctle is engraved:



'And now the dear Creatures appear,
As if for Hot Action inclin'd Sir,
With Breast- Work projecting in Front,
And extended Bum Batteries behind Sir.
vide Paddy OBrien.' 15 March 1786


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 277 millimetres
Width: 216 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1868,0808.5487
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

The projecting gauze was called 'fortification breastworks' in the 'Rambler's Magazine', Jan. 1786, p. 38. For these extravagant fashions see BMSats 6874, 7099, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1868-0808-5487
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