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A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Philip Dawe

Published by: John Bowles
Title
A new fashion'd head dress for young misses of three score and ten
Description
English: The interior of a luxuriously furnished lady's dressing-room. An old woman sits before the dressing-table, smiling at her reflection in the mirror, while two hair-dressers lift on to her head a monstrous wig, decorated with a nosegay of flowers, ribbons, large ostrich-feathers, and flanked with curls. She has a grotesque and witch-like profile, frontal baldness, and short, lank hair. She is elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day, wearing large pendent ear-rings, voluminous lace ruffles to her elbow-sleeves and a lace-trimmed apron over a much-trimmed dress. She clasps to her breast a King Charles dog. The two hair-dressers are evidently French, both are grinning; one (left) wears a toupet-wig, with a large black bag and solitaire cravat; he is about to place the front of the wig on the lady's forehead. The other (right) supports the back of the wig and is partly concealed by it; his toupet-wig has a very long pigtail queue.


The wall is hung with paper or brocade above a plain dado; a patterned carpet with a fringe covers the floor. A window on the left is festooned with a heavy fringed curtain. The dressing-table in front of the window, with an oval mirror, is elaborately draped with embroidered muslin; on it are toilet jars, &c. 8 May 1777


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Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 352 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.101
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

For satires on this type of hairdressing see BMSat 5370, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-101
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