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A hint to the ladies to take care of their heads   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Formerly attributed to: Philip Dawe

After: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm
Published by: Sayer & Bennett
Title
A hint to the ladies to take care of their heads
Description
English: The interior of the rotunda at the Pantheon. A lady stands in the centre, the feathers (taller than the wearer) in her grotesquely high coiffure of hair having caught fire from the hanging candelabra. A maidservant directs a jet of water to the blaze from the nozzle of a large pencil-shaped fire extinguisher, which she holds in both hands. A man holds up in both hands a long narrow board marked in lengths of feet with which he appears to be measuring the height of the head-dress. A lady and a gentleman sit on a sofa (right), each with a hand held up in surprise. On the left are two ladies, seated, with a man standing behind them, bending forward as he looks through his lorgnette. The ladies are dressed in the fashion of the day, with long ear-rings, and large nosegays tucked into their low-cut bodices. On a scaffolding (right) stand two workmen who are wielding mallets with great energy. In a gallery high up under the dome, fronted by a balustrade, are musicians (left) partly obscured by the towering feathers, two violinists being visible. 28 March 1776
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Date 1776
date QS:P571,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 353 millimetres
Width: 252 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.107
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) For other satires on the monstrous hairdressing of 1776 see BMSat 5370, &c. Reproduced, Paston, Pl. xxii; A. S. Turberville, 'Men and Manners of the Eighteenth Century', 1926, p. 100.

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The design drawing, squared for transfer, by Grimm was with Andrew Edmunds in 2007. Dorothy George's attribution to Dawe is rejected by Andrew Edmunds, and is almost certainly wrong since the drawing has none of Dawe's oddities and exaggeration; the print is however still placed under his name for simplicity. For a coloured impression see Adelheid Rasche & Gundula Wolter (eds), 'Ridikül! Mode in der Karikatur', Berlin Kunstbibliothek 2003, cat.5.4.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-107
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