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A Splendid Spread

Item

Subject

Parody illustration of waiter serving a woman dressed in crinoline.

Description

This illustration by George Cruikshank parodies the inflatable crinoline dresses worn by women in the nineteenth-century in London. The woman portrayed here wears crinoline so immense that her server must transfer food to her on a long spoon.

Creator

George Cruikshank

Source

Wikimedia Commons

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons, 2 December 2006, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1850-g-cruikshank-crinoline-parody.png

Date

1850

Contributor

Paige York

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

N/A

Format

.png

Language

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Type

N/A

Identifier

N/A

Coverage

N/A

Original Format

Illustration

Physical Dimensions

859 x 492

Citation

George Cruikshank, “A Splendid Spread,” The Lyon Archive, accessed May 2, 2024, https://lyon.eastendarchives.net/items/show/202.