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1. A treatise on the principles of hair-dressing : in which the deformities of modern hair-dressing are pointed out, and an elegant and natural plan recommended, upon Hogarth's immortal system of beauty ...

Creator:: Barker, William
Published / Created:: [1785?]
Call Number:: 657 785B
Image Count:: 39
Alternative Title:: Treatise on the principles of hairdressing
Description:: Price from imprint: 1s 6d. and Dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire.
Publisher:: Printed by J. Rozea, and sold by J. Bew [etc.]
Subject (Topic):: Hairdressing, Hairstyles, and Haircutting
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A treatise on the principles of hair-dressing : in which the deformities of modern hair-dressing are pointed out, and an elegant and natural plan recommended, upon Hogarth's immortal system of beauty ...

2. Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 January 1777]
Call Number:: 777.01.01.02+
Collection Title:: Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
Alternative Title:: Cork rump
Description:: Title from item., State without plate number., and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Publisher:: Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

3. Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 January 1777]
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
Alternative Title:: Cork rump
Description:: Title from item., State without plate number., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., On leaf 2., and 1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Chloe's cushion, or, The cork rump [graphic].

4. Miss Juniper Fox [graphic].

Published / Created:: Mar. 2, 1777.
Call Number:: 777.03.02.01
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Half length front view of a young woman with ermine-trimmed gown and muff, and with extremely tall coiffure, of which beer barrels form the side curls. On top of her head an inverted rooster is held down by foxes on either side, the enormous tails of the three animals forming further ornament to the hair
Description:: Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: V.2, 95.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Wigs, Foxes, Roosters, and Barrels
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Juniper Fox [graphic].

5. Miss shuttle-cock [graphic]

Published / Created:: Decr. 6. 1776.
Call Number:: 776.12.06.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two men playing shuttlecock, an obese clergyman on the left and a gentleman in pigtail queue on right. Their airborne "shuttlecock" is a woman with the huge feathered coiffure of the day and the fashionable "cork rump" or bustle visible beneath her skirts
Alternative Title:: Miss shuttlecock
Description:: Title from item., R.S. monogram in image may refer to Richard Sneer (i.e., R. B. Sheridan) or to the identity of the print's subject., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Verse beneath title: Ladie likes [sic] shuttle-cocks are now array'd, the tail is cork'd & feather'd is the head., and Verso with contemporary ms. inscription.
Publisher:: Pubd. by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic):: Badminton (Game), Hairstyles, Badminton, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Miss shuttle-cock [graphic]

6. Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

Published / Created:: Nov. 6, 1776.
Call Number:: 776.11.06.01+
Collection Title:: Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:: Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):: Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

7. Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

Published / Created:: Nov. 6, 1776.
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:: Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 10., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):: Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

8. Ridiculous taste [graphic].

Published / Created:: 10 June 1776.
Call Number:: 776.06.10.03
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A lady, seated and in fashionable dress wears a towering coiffure, which a French hairdresser adjusts her curls from behind while standing on the topmost rungs of a ladder. In front of the woman a naval officer sights through an octant to the top of her hairdo
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Hairdressing, Astronomical instruments, Ladders, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ridiculous taste [graphic].

9. Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].

Creator:: Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
Call Number:: Folio 53 D18 828
Image Count:: 40
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Two scrapbooks containing a collection of mostly 18th century engravings and etchings, some of which are purported to have belonged to Horace Walpole, organized thematically. With four original drawings, including a watercolor and wash drawing of the Neapolitan painter Luca Jordano signed by J.B. Catenaro, an unsigned portrait in red crayon of Cornelius Jansen, a pencil portrait of an unknown woman, and another small pencil drawing of a landscape. The first volume contains etchings and engravings of English villages and rural scenes including the farm house and printing house at Strawberry Hill and two vignettes of Strawberry Hill; topographical scenes in Surrey and Twickenham; etchings of Roman scenes; portraits of eminent historical and contemporary political figures and The second volume begins with a series of 192 small French engravings of women, which document the hair styles and hat fashions in the 17th and 18th centuries, all engraved by Dupin or Desrais. A second series of the 48 engravings from Wenceslaus Hollar's Theatrum mulierum depict the costumes of 17th century women (mostly) in Europe. These prints are followed by 29 small engravings by C. Heath of prominent British politicians and writers of the 18th century. The final pages include several portraits of contemporary British and French figures as well as the plates drawn and engraved by Henry Moses for A series of twenty-nine designs of modern costume published in London by E. and C. M'Lean in 1823
Description:: In English and French. and Recovered in cloth with marble boards.
Subject (Geographic):: Europe, Great Britain, Europe., Great Britain., and England
Subject (Name):: Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828., Giordano, Luca, 1634-1705, and Janssen van Ceulen, Cornelius, 1593-1661.
Subject (Topic):: Costume, History, Hairstyles, Authors, English, Politicians, Fashion, Clothing and dress, and Social life and customs
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbooks, [not after 1830].