Display Status

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Object Details

Type

ART-Prints, Original

Medium

Print, Etching on Paper, Colored

Physical Description

Colored etching of twenty small caricatures of various uses for hoop skirts, each with a caption in French. Scene #6 shows a hoop skirt being used as a parachute, and #15 has a balloon in the sky in the background.
Printed in France, 'Fabrique d'Estampes de Gaugel à Metz.'

Dimensions

Mat: 55.9 × 45.9cm (22 in. × 18 1/16 in.)
Unmatted: 45.7 × 36.5cm (18 in. × 14 3/8 in.)

Inventory Number

A20140478000

Credit Line

Gift of the Norfolk Charitable Trust

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum

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