Today I found out that that alleged 18th Century woodcut of a woman saying "come out you bitch, I'll maul you" that's been doing the rounds is apparently 100% legitimate, and the reason nobody could source it is because the screenshot gets the title wrong. It's evidently from The new art and mystery of gossiping (the popularly circulated screenshot misspells "mystery" as "mastery"), and the full text is available here:
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1762 Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland - Portrait of Olive Craster
(Minneapolis Institute of Art)
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Wentke (Gown)
Mid 18th Century
The Netherlands
Women in Hindeloopen, a town in the northern Netherlandish province of Friesland, traditionally wore this type of striking lightweight coat, called a wentke, on special occasions. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, wentkes were usually made of boldly patterned Indian chintzes, and contrary to the custom in the rest of Europe of confining chintz to casual and private occasions, residents of Hindeloopen elevated this exotic fabric to a formal status. The wentke was often worn with other garments of Indian cotton. (The MET)
Peabody Essex Museum (Object Number: 2012.22.15)
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Key to Marie Antoinette's private cabinet, late 1760s.
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Robe à la française c. 1760
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Alexander Roslin - The Lady with the Veil (the Artist's Wife), 1768
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Beige Floral Cotton Robe à l’Anglaise, ca. 1760-1770, Indian (for the European Market).
Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Portrait of Lady Louisa Leveson Gower as Spes (Goddess of Hope), 1767
Angelica Kauffmann
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Corset, C. Late 1760s
Gift of Mrs. William Martine Weaver, 1950
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A woman's gown, British, 1760-69; Pink gros de tours silk with flush effect, ivory flowers, Spitalfields, 1740s; fancy dress additions 1950s
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1760-1770
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ab. 1760 Man's banyan (informal robe) (Spitalfields (London), England)
silk damask (figured silk in the style of Anna Maria Garthwaite)
(Royal Ontario Museum)
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Shoe
1760-1780
United Kingdom
The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.4132)
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Wall mirror by Thomas Johnson, 1760, England.
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Hand-painted Chinese silk robe and petticoat, probably English, c. 1760-1765. Tunbridge Wells Museum & Art Gallery.
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