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"The Coming Season", an 1870 cartoon satirizing the London social "season", as printed or reprinted in Harper's Bazar magazine.

The main theme is young upper-class women (and some not-so-young) determined to find a husband during the social events (balls etc.) of the season. Vignettes include coming "out"; being presented at court; mothers on the hunt for an eligible matrimonial "catch" for their daughters, especially among the scions of nobility; a girl triumphantly throwing aside her books on being promoted from the schoolroom to the ballroom; changing fashions in artificial hair-buns, etc.

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  • Depictions of five women:
    • "Coming out"
    • "Came out last Season"
    • "Will conquer or Die"
    • "Didn't come out yesterday"
    • "Not shelved yet" (examining herself critically in mirror)
  • Depictions of two mothers:
    • "The Dowager's Stud Book" (poring over PEERAGE book listing aristocratic heirs)
    • "Four girls to commoners... the fifth must have a coronet." [i.e. of nobility]
  • "Engines of war" (beautifying implements)
  • " A propos de bottes" (rummaging through drawers, big pile of shoes on the floor)
  • "A royal Salute" (deep curtsey as one is formally "presented" to royalty)
Date
Source Ultimately from Harper's Bazar; scanned by H. Churchyard from The Wonderful World of Ladies' Fashion: 1850-1920, edited by Joseph J. Schroeder, Jr.
Author unknown 1870 artist

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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