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Venus attired by the Graces
Gillray, James, 1756-1815 · December 8, 1800
A fat ugly woman sits squarely on a stool, in stays and petticoat with clumsy ungartered stockings. Three women, grotesquely ugly, advance towards her, one with a cap, the other with a petticoat, a third with a chamber-pot. On the ground are combs, hair-tongs, tankard, pin-cushion, fan, and garters. Said to be a satire on 'some vulgar fashionable' (BM). / A satire on some vulgar fashionable of the commencement of the present century (Wright/Evans).
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