3-011-823 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Fluffy", by J. M. Jopling, in the Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. Engraving of a painting. 'What a title for a picture! We give the painter the benefit of the assumption that he intended this odd designation to refer only to the tiny toy terrier which this fair girl holds so daintily and caressingly, and whose smother of white worsted hair may have provoked such an appellation. But we fear there are some persons so devoid of all sense of gallantry as to be capable of seeking to fix the name "Fluffy" on the lady herself, under pretence of its being applicable to her tangle of warm golden - we dare not say red - hair and to the long pile of her dark sealskin jacket. Leaving such persons to the contempt they deserve, we beg to compliment the artist for the courage he has displayed in painting the profile view of a lady's face with a turned-up nose'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.