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The line-block reproduction of Beardsley’s pen-and-ink drawing is in portrait orientation with a double-lined border. The illustration is of Mrs. Pinchwife from the play The Country Wife by Wycherley. The background is left blank, but “Mrs Pinchwife” is printed in caps, by hand, on the of the image. In the bottom left corner are the artist’s initials “AB”. Mrs Pinchwife stands on the right side of the image and occupies the full length of the page. She has long curling black hair that extends past her shoulders. She is facing the viewer with her upper body angled to her right. She wearing men’s clothing appropriate for the 17th century. She is wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a varied pattern of dots on it. The edges of the hat are scalloped and edged in black. She is wearing a buttoned tailcoat with a white cravat or jabot at her neck. Under her coat she is wearing a long-sleeved white shirt; the ends of the sleeves are ruffled and protrude from the coat’s cuff. She is wearing white breeches and white stockings with ruffles that match the ones on her sleeves. She is wearing heeled shoes with black laces.