Can you forbear laughing [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Can you forbear laughing [graphic].
- Creator
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Contributor
- Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
- Published / Created
- as the act directs 14 June 1776.
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
- Abstract
-
"A lady stands at her dressing-table (right), her hair in an enormous pyramid decorated with feathers torn from a peacock, an ostrich and a cock. A young girl wearing a hat holds the peacock by a wing; another wearing a cap tugs hard at one of its tail feathers (which are very unlike peacock's feathers). An ostrich (left), which has lost most of its tail feathers, is about to pluck out those which ornament the lady's hair. A cock stands in the foreground (right), having lost almost all its tail feathers, many of which lie on the floor. A black servant wearing a turban stands on his mistress's right, handing feathers from a number which he holds in his left hand. The lady, who faces three-quarter to the right, is elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day. Her pyramid of hair is decorated with lappets of lace and festoons of jewels as well as with feathers. She wears large earrings, a necklace with a cross, her bodice is cut very low, and her elbow sleeves have lace ruffles. A pannelled wall forms the background."--British Museum online catalog
- Description
-
Title from caption below image.
Printmaker identified as Philip Dawe by Dorothy George. See British Museum catalogue. - Provenance
- Andrew Edmunds; November 2012.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 25.6 cm, on sheet 38.9 x 28.9 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 776.06.14.01+
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Mezzotints England London 1776 - Material
- mezzotint ; and hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Great Britain
England - Subject (Topic)
-
Fashion
Chickens
Clothing & dress
Feathers
Hairdressing
Hairstyles
Ostriches
Peacocks
Servants - Subjects
-
Fashion > Great Britain > 18th century
Chickens
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Feathers
Hairdressing
Hairstyles
Ostriches
Peacocks
Servants
England > 1776
England > London > 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
- 11119218
- Object ID (OID)
- 11001102