V0048935 Women wearing crinolines set on fire, ca. 1860, lithograph
V0048935 Women wearing crinolines set on fire, ca. 1860, lithograph
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Women wearing crinolines which are set on fire by flames from a domestic fireplace. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1860.
Lettering: “Fire”. The horrors of crinoline and the destruction of human life.
Lettering note: On the verso, a lithographed list of 54 prints, mostly on the subject of crinolines, available from the same publisher. One gives a terminus ante quem non for the present print: it showed the winner of the 1859 Derby.
Colour Lithograph
1860 Published: [ca. 1860?]
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