Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].
- Contributor
- Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [13 June 1776]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pub. 13 June 1776 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho
- Abstract
-
A young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair are kitchen implements, poker, tongs and shovel, a mop, broom, etc., and, in the center, a large wheel of cheese infested by mice. Various vegetables are assembled around the cheese, while a dog and cat confront one another below it.
- Description
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Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells.
"Price one shill."--Lower margin.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and price. Imprint from impression in the British Museum online catalogue.
Mounted to 38 x 27 cm. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 322 x 222 mm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 776.06.13.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England 1776 - Material
- etching with stipple engraving ;
- Subject (Geographic)
- England
- Subject (Topic)
-
Women domesticss
Wigs
Hairstyles
Cooks
Cooking utensils
Fireplaces
Mops & mopsticks
Brooms & brushes
Dogs
Cats
Apes
Cheese
Vegetables - Subjects
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Women domesticss
Wigs
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Cooks
Cooking utensils
Fireplaces
Mops & mopsticks
Brooms & brushes
Dogs
Cats
Apes
Cheese
Vegetables
England > 1776
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 6566411
- Object ID (OID)
- 10723029