Ridiculous taste [graphic].

Description

Title: Ridiculous taste [graphic].
Published / Created: 10 June 1776.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Abstract: A lady, seated and in fashionable dress wears a towering coiffure, which a French hairdresser adjusts her curls from behind while standing on the topmost rungs of a ladder. In front of the woman a naval officer sights through an octant to the top of her hairdo
Description: Title from item.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 2.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.3 x 11.4 cm, on sheet 19 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Mezzotints England London 1776
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Material: mezzotint with etching ;
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Hairdressing
Astronomical instruments
Ladders
Wigs
Hairstyles
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Hairdressing > Early works to 1800
Astronomical instruments
Ladders
Wigs
Hairstyles > England > 1776
Hairdressing
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
England > London > 1776
England > 1776

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