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The man of feeling, in search of indispensibles; a scene at the Little French Milleners A number of disputes having arisen in the Beau Monde, respecting the exact situation of the ladies' indispensibles (or new invented pockets) whether they were placed at the ancle i.e. ankle, or in a more eligible situation, the above search took place, in order to determine precisely the longitude of these inestimable conveniences Js Gillray, invt. & fect, British Cartoon Print

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The man of feeling, in search of indispensibles; a scene at the Little French Milleners A number of disputes having arisen in the Beau Monde, respecting the exact situation of the ladies' indispensibles (or new invented pockets) whether they were placed at the ancle i.e. ankle, or in a more eligible situation, the above search took place, in order to determine precisely the longitude of these inestimable conveniences Js Gillray, invt. & fect, British Cartoon Print

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"Girls, fashionably dressed, sit sewing round a large table. In the foreground the elephantine Prince of Orange kneels, feeling the leg of two girls on his right and left; they throw up their arms and scream..." (Source: George)

Library's copy is hand-colored.
Another impression filed in: The work of James Gillray, no. 11 (NC1479.G5.B7 1851)
Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum / by Mary Dorothy George, v. 7, no. 9577
Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress).

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01/01/1800
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