An enormously fat lady stands in profile to the left, holding a bowl (resembling a punch-bowl), her left hand on her hip, holding up the frilled apron which drapes her quilted petticoat. She wears ringlets with a small ribbon-trimmed straw hat poised on the side of her head. Her girth is accentuated by her quasi-peasant costume, with laced bodice, and flowered over-dress looped up in festoons, giving her a globular contour. Beneath the design:
"------ay, here 's the masculine to the feminine gender" (words spoken by cowslip, the young dairymaid in o'keefe's 'agreeable surprise'). Below the title:
"as a cedar tall & slender;
"sweet cowslip's grace
"is her nom'tive case,
"and she 's of the feminine gender. " [song in act ii. ] 13 june 1795
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1795. Dimensions: Height: 339 mm; Width: 226 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Albinia Hobart, Countess of Buckinghamshire. Collection: British Museum. Enter Cowslip with a bowl of cream. -Vide Brandenburg theatricals (BM 1851,0901.743)
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