Our Colonel's Wife
London: Day & Son, 1859. Color lithograph. Image measures 6.25" x 8.5". From Atkinson's satirical book "Curry and Rice (on Forty Plates), or the Ingredients of Social Life at "Our" Station in India" about a fictional village called Kabob. Scene shows a colonial woman being fitted for a dress - surrounded by men sewing, ironing, spinning thread, taking measurements, etc. More