A very fat and a very thin woman face one another, both wearing the hoods supported with hoops of cane or whalebone known as calashes, from their likeness to the folding hoods of carriages called by the same name ('O.E.D.'). The fat woman (left) leans back in an armchair, one foot supported on a stool; her calash is like an almost spherical barrel. Her 'vis-à-vis' sits upright, holding a fan, on a stool with folding legs; her calash is angular, showing its ribs; she wears a very skimpy skirt with a fullness at the back indicating a 'cork rump', see BMSat 5381, &amp;c. On the floor by the fat woman is a large trimmed bonnet, in which is a cat with kittens, one kitten prances at some distance. By the thin woman is a flat ribbon-trimmed hat, across which a dog is walking. No other furniture is visible, except a hanging lamp with one beak, suspended from the wall. On the wall are four framed pictures, two of birds, one of some feline animal, one cut off by the left margin.  11 March 1777
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1777<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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