Modern Oddities, by P. Pry Esq., Plate 1st
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Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
Plate: 10 1/8 × 14 5/16 in. (25.7 × 36.4 cm) Sheet: 11 in. × 16 1/4 in. (28 × 41.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022
Accession Number
2022.309.24
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About this artwork
This hand-colored etching satirizes the exaggerated women's fashions of late 1820s Britain. Published on June 30, 1829, by Thomas McLean, the print depicts a woman in an enormously puffed-sleeve dress that epitomizes the period's departure from Neoclassical simplicity. William Heath, working under the pseudonym 'Paul Pry,' created this caricature as part of his 'Modern Oddities' series. The title references Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (Act 4, Scene 3, line 143), where Petruchio critici...
About the Artist
Thomas McLean|William Heath ('Paul Pry')|William Shakespeare (British|British) · 1800 |1788 –1828 |1875
British, Isleworth ca. 1800–1828 London|British, 1788–1875