The green stall [graphic]

Description

Title: The green stall [graphic]
Contributor: Bath, Miss, artist.
Published / Created: July 1[?], 1777.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: Profile head of a woman facing left with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper two thirds of the print. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with vegetables, carrots and parsnips in particular, while from the top protrude a bunch of asparagus, a pair of scales containing potatoes and herbs reminiscent of then-fashionable ostrich plumes, and trails of hanging pea-pods for ribbons
Description: Title from item.
Trimmmed within plate mark and torn at corners.
Signed in lower left of image by the engraver(?) MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and below image by the artist(?) [Miss] Bath on the right.
Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
British Museum catalogue suggest a date of publication: July 11, 1777.
Numbered in plate at top: 16, V.2.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss collection, vol. 3.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1777
Etchings England London 1777
Satires (Visual works) England 1777
Material: etching & engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Hairstyles
Wigs
Vegetables
Subjects: Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Wigs
Vegetables
England > London > 1777
England > 1777

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