The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].

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Title: The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
Alternative Title: Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady
Featherd lady
Feathered lady
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: March 20, 1776.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and vegetables, several of which already adorn the first woman's hair
Description: Title etched below image.
State without plate number. Cf. No. 5370 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
On leaf 27.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with loss of year from end of imprint statement.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 38 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Material: etching with engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Hairstyles
Wigs
Clothing & dress
Dressing tables
Feathers
Hairdressing
Subjects: Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Wigs
Clothing & dress
Dressing tables
Feathers
Hairdressing
England > 1776
England > London > 1776

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