Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A female review.
Call Number
E South 13/GC021/Box 29/Normal/Unidentified Artists/Titles A b-A sq GA 2011.01122
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8w32rj45d
Publisher
Dublin : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1700-1799
Extent
1 item ; sheet 25.5 x 39.1 cm [irregular].
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Unidentified Artist [caricaturist]
Medium: Etchings
Depiction: Women of the "Forlorn Hope Battalion" stand in formation as directed by their leader, ". . . In all human probability, the enemy will charge in the rear, I have therefore placed in the front ranks widows, and ladies who have been more than once married, having superior knowledge of the Tacticks -- virgins of eighteen and young married ladies form the center, and old maids bring up the rear . . ."
Signed in plate, lower left: "Satira invt.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Single women—Ireland—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Hope—Caricatures and cartoons
Man-woman relationships—Ireland—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Widows—Ireland—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Virgins—Ireland—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e10b7e6a-645d-499c-8c04-20c8c7b6d73b/manifest