Utility Combined with Elegance mb-artist Thomas_Goldsworth_Dutton View of Newnham's Place

View of Newnham's Place

surrounded by a hostile crowd

Peter Thomson

with paintings lining the walls from floor to ceiling and a large crowd of fashionably dressed figures viewing the works and conversing amongst themselves

Utility Combined with Elegance mb-artist Thomas_Goldsworth_Dutton View of Newnham's Place'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