Top and Tail, 1777, Hand-colored etching with stipple, plate: 12 11/16 x 7 13/16 in. (32.3 x 19.9 cm), Prints, Anonymous, British, 18th century, Ascribed to Miss Heel (British, 18th century), After Mr. Perwig (British, 18th century), To modern eyes this design looks surreal but it is actually a fashionable, erotic variant of a seventeenth-century print type. Known as Nobody prints, these featured figures composed only of legs and heads, with nothing in between, and the resulting verbal-visual pun was aimed critically at specified target
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Top, Tail, 1777, Hand-colored etching, stipple, plate, 12 11/16 x 7 13/16, 32.3 19.9 cm, Prints, Anonymous, British, 18th century, Ascribed to Miss Heel, After Mr. Perwig, modern, eyes, design looks, surreal, actually, fashionable, erotic variant, seventeenth-century print, type, Nobody prints, featured figures, composed, legs, heads, nothing, resulting verbal-visual, pun, aimed critically, specified target
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