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| Keywords: High-Change-in-Bond-Street-Gillray.jpeg High-change in Bond Street ”ou ”la Politesse du Grande Monde / Js Gy d et fect SUMMARY Fashionably dressed pedestrians on Bond Street In the foreground five men crowd a woman and girl off the sidewalk as they leer at them The women seen from the back are oddly dressed In the background three ladies also in exaggerated costumes walking arm-in-arm in the roadway MEDIUM 1 print etching hand-colored CREATED/PUBLISHED London H Humphrey 1796 March 27th According to Wright Evans Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray 1851 OCLC 59510372 p 425 This is understood to be a very fair attack on the want of courtesy in the gentlemen frequenters of Bond Street the grand fashionable lounge at the time it was published some of whom shewed no hesitation in taking the wall and even the pavement of the ladies throwing them as here represented into the street Also satirizes the women's fashion of wearing one or a few vertical feathers in their headdresses Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division LC-USZC4-8766 color film copy transparency http //memory loc gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g08000/3g08700/3g08766u tif uncompressed archival TIFF version 49 MB level color pick white point cropped and converted to JPEG quality level 88 with the GIMP 2 4 5 1796-03-27 creator James Gillray No known restriction on publication File High-change in Bond Street - ou - la politesse du grande monde by James Gillray jpg LOC-image cph 3g08766 PD-old-100 1796 cartoons Fashion in 1796 James Gillray Caricatures of the United Kingdom Bond Street Streets in London in art Pavements in London Fashion of London Regency era | ||||
