File:Monstrosities of 1818 restored.jpg

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English: "Monstrosities of 1818", an October 3rd 1818 caricature by George Cruikshank exaggerating the latest style trends in British fashion. For women, this was a trend towards a conical silhouette (as opposed to the narrow clinging skirts of the ca. 1797-1815 period) with strongly contrasting decoration at the lower hem, and large bonnets -- and for men, extremely tall cravats at the neck, narrow tails of the tailcoats, and the wearing of male corsets(?). By an old caricaturists' trick, the women's skirts are shown shorter than they would have been in real life. The men walking fully arm-in-arm was reasonably common and socially acceptable at the time.

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Source Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.07806
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George Cruikshank  (1792–1878)  wikidata:Q360466 s:en:Author:George Cruikshank
 
George Cruikshank
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George Cruickshank; George, I Cruikshank; George, I Cruickshank; Cruickshank; george cruikshank; cruikshank
Description British caricaturist, artist, illustrator, photographer and painter
Date of birth/death 27 September 1792 Edit this at Wikidata 1 February 1878 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
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Other versions Cropped to remove edging, blemishes and dust digitally removed, black enhanced. Converted from .tiff File:Monstrosities of 1818.tif

For more aggressively color-rebalanced version already uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2006, see File:Monstrosities-of-1818-Cruikshank.jpg

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