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D5459 - George Murgatroyd Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist - [c1780]-1840
- 1 - Drawings - [c1780]-1809

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D5459/1/75
Former Reference	D5459/1/16
Title	A Shadow of the Times
Date	[1780-1799]
Description	A fop dressed in the extremes of 1780s fashion. He faces forward, with his head in profile. He is wearing stockings of vertical blue and white stripes, a waistcoat of horizontal blue and white stripes and a frock-coat of vertical red and white stripes. His coat has a very large brown stand-fall collar, and his long, beige, high-fitting breeches have ribbon ties at the bottom and red braces, or gallowses. He is wearing top-boots with spurs and on his head he wears pig-tail queue and round hat with a high crown. In his right hand he holds a very slender cane. Available on CD 158.
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Artist	Woodward, George Murgatroyd (?1765-1809)
Archive Creator	George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765-1809), artist and writer
Further Information	G M Woodward Delint. His style of dress can be dated to the late 1780s or early 1790s. Stripes were very fashionable in the 1780s, the stand-fall collar became increasingly high from around 1785, and braces did not become widespread until around 1787. The title is written on the verso. The handwriting may be that of William Woodward, the artist's father.
Physical Description	Coloured drawing. Size 280 x 165 mm. Portrait.
Copies	A digital copy can also be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
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