Fashion before ease;—or,—a good constitution sacrificed for a fantastick form
g. W. Invt. [gillray f. ]
summary: cartoon showing britannia clasping trunk of a large oak, while thomas paine tugs with both hands at her stay laces, his foot on her posterior. From his coat pocket protrudes a pair of scissors and a tape inscribed: rights of man. Behind him is a thatched cottage inscribed: thomas pain, staymaker from thetford. Paris modes, by express. Medium: 1 print: engraving, color
created/published: [london]: published by h. Humphrey, 1793. Date: 2 January 1793.
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