Utility Combined with Elegance mb-artist Thomas_Goldsworth_Dutton 6th January 1965

6th January 1965

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The cartoon is accompanied by a poem of the same name in which Punch makes the point that the Irrepressible Donkey

Fantastical airship with a rudder and a complicated system of rope-activated wings

Utility Combined with Elegance mb-artist Thomas_Goldsworth_Dutton 6th January 1965'Utility Combined with Elegance', 1858. This cartoon is one of very many in Punch during the mid Victorian period which satirise women's fashions. One of Punch's favourite targets was the absurdity of the crinoline. Here, the lady's footman has to walk so far behind her in order not to tread on her skirts that the umbrella he carries is four times the size of an ordinary one and thus accommodates not only himself and his mistress, but a miscellany of