High-change in Bond Street, -or- the politeness of high society, James Gillray, 1796

Bond street, the pavement receding diagonally from left to right, is thronged with fashionable pedestrians. In the foreground five fashionably dressed men advance, forming a phalanx which pushes on to the cobbled roadway a lady, dressed rather for the ball-room than the street, to whose arm clings a little girl; both are in back view. The men smile or leer. The lady's neck diminishes to a point, tresses of hair hang from her turban (cf. Bmsat 8755), which is trimmed by a gigantic erect feather. Her over-dress hangs from her shoulders and swells into folds which sweep the ground. She holds a fan. (small copy in grego. ) behind (right) three ladies walk arm-in-arm in the roadway: a fat woman in a riding-habit, looking through an opera-glass, and two younger women, one with her face covered by a transparent veil reaching nearly to the (knees, the other looking demurely down. Among the crowd in the background a man arm-in-arm with a military officer in back view (? lord moira) resembles fox. 27 march 1796 hand-coloured etching. Date: 1796. Dimensions: Height: 252 mm; Width: 351 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Charles James Fox. Collection: British Museum. High-change in Bond Street, -ou- la politesse du grand monde (BM 1868,0808.6509)