Rotten-row, or, The fate of the tete [graphic]

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Title: Rotten-row, or, The fate of the tete [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fate of the tête
Contributor: G. S. C., printmaker.
Published / Created: [16 April 1777]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. as the act directs, 16th April 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Piccadilly
Abstract: Image above 6 stanzas of explanatory poetry engraved in double columns. A balding lady on horseback in Hyde Park's Rotten Row loses her tête or head-dress to a gust of wind, as her horse bolts toward the right. Two other horsemen as well as a gardener and other passers-by debate the identity of the fallen wig which is decorated with ostrich plumes in the fashion of the period
Description: Title from item.
Trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 27 x 21 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss collection, vol. 3.
Extent: 1 print : image and text 23 x 17 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1777
Etchings England 1777
Material: etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Hyde Park (London, England)
England
Subject (Topic): Wigs
Horseback riding
Hairstyles
Accidents
Subjects: Hyde Park (London, England)
Wigs
Horseback riding > England > 18th century
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Accidents
England > 1777

Access: Public
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