Matrimonial comforts. Sketch 6, A fashionable suit! / Woodward del ; etched by Rowlandson.
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
A tailor (left) holds out a mirror to an ugly and disgusted customer, who wears a coat of 'Jean de Bry' pattern, with short bulky breeches and slippers. The customer is saying: Why you have put me a hump upon each shoulder--and here's a pair of Dutchmans breeches that would hold provision for a marching regiment--well I tell you what Master Tayor D---n me if I would go to our Club such a figure for fifty Pounds! The tailor replies: Made entirely to your Lady's Orders your Honor I assure you-she said now you was married you should look like the rest of the world;
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.