Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].

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Title: Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].
Alternative Title: Female fashionable follies
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs [1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: A satire on the "macaroni' hairstyles for women: a man seated on a bench (left) in a park stares at two women with fashionable macaroni hair pieces as they walk past him, left to right. The two women are accompanied by a lap-dog and a black page boy
Description: Title etched below image.
First published with the title: The fashionable dresses for the year 1776.
Date erased from this impression. Date from British Museum catalogue.
In the lower left corner of the print: No. 345.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark x cm, on sheet x cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Mezzotints England London 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Black people
Benches
Boys
Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Hairstyles
Servants
Subjects: Black people
Benches
Boys
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Hairstyles
Servants
England > 1776
England > London > 1776

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