'The Fashionable Bosom'

 

I'm not sure which I like more: the title of this print (A Nest for Puppies or the Fashionable Bosom) or its content.   Either way it's in my favourite file along with The breeches in the Fiera Maschereta.

The 1786 print critiques women's frivolous love of cute little lap dogs and expanding bustlines.  Why not combine the two?

Why not indeed.

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Anon. The breeches in the Fiera Maschereta, 1775

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Anonymous, An Emblem of a Modern Marriage, 1775

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Pompeu Batoni, Sir Sampson Gideon and an unidentified companion, 1767

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Sir Thomas Lawrence, Emilia Mary Boucherett with a Doll, 1793

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José Camarón Boronat, Parejas en un Parque, 1785

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Henry Robert Morland, The Fair Nun Unmasked, 1769

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Nicolas de Largillière, Study of Hands, 1715

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Francisco Goya, The Dog, 1820-23

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Joseph-Marie Vien, The Cupid Seller,  1763

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Cornelis Troost, Three Governors of the Surgeons' Guild, Amsterdam, 1731

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Jean-Étienne Liotard, Still Life: Tea Set, circa 1781–83

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John Hoppner, The Franklin Sisters, 1795

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Ralph Earl, Marianne Drake, 1783

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Benjamin West, Queen Charlotte, 1779

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Johan Zoffany, Colonel Blair with his Family and an Indian Ayah, 1786

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Isaak Ouwater, The Bookshop and Lottery Agency of Jan de Groot on Kalverstraat in Amsterdam, 1779

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Johann Baptist von Lampi, Aloysia Weber as Zémire, 1784

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Unknown, once thought to be Jean-Étienne Liotard, Portrait of a Young Woman, late 18th century

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George Romney, Mrs. Georgiana Smyth and her Son, 1780