A pair of masculine legs from below the calf, the feet in large buckled shoes, between the tiny ankles and feet of the duchess of york wearing jewelled slippers, placed horizontally. See bmsat 7930, &c. 24 january 1792
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1792. Dimensions: Height: 255 mm; Width: 355 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany and Bishop of Osnabrück, . Collection: British Museum. Fashionable contrasts; -or- the duchess's little shoe yielding to the magnitude of the duke's foot (BM 1868,0808.6150 1)
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