Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].
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Description
- Title
- Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].
- Alternative Title
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America's head dress
America's headdress - Contributor
- Darly, M. publisher.
- Published / Created
- [19 April 1776]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Abstract
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"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Second of two plates on leaf 56. - Provenance
- P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 25 x 18 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title
- Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Collection Date
- [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776 - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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United States
England - Subject (Topic)
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Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
History > Revolution, 1775-1783
Hairstyles
Clothing & dress
Muffs
Soldiers
British
Flags
Apes
Geese - Subjects
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Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Muffs
Soldiers > British
Flags
Apes
Geese
Hairstyles
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
- 13900828
- Object ID (OID)
- 16737603