High Spirits
An exploration of 100 works by the sharp-eyed, English caricaturist Thomas Rowlandson.
THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
A Little Tighter.
18 May 1791Hand-coloured etching | 39.0 x 31.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 810415
A hand-coloured print of a tailor struggling to fasten the corset of a large woman who stands with her back to the viewer. The dressmaker's tricorn hat has fallen off during the struggle and lies on the ground at the bottom right. Companion print to RCIN 810416.
Inscribed in the plate: Rowlandson. 1791. / Publsh'd by S.W. Fores No 3 Piccadilly May 18th. 1791
Bibliographic reference(s)
BM Satires 8837 B (BM Satires : Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum ... 11 v. in 12.)
BM Satires 8916 (BM Satires : Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum ... 11 v. in 12.)
