Title from item., Date inferred from printmaker's street address; Garnett Terry occupied various numbers on Paternoster Row from 1770 to 1796. See British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom., Text within banners surrounding central image, clockwise from upper right: Toupees; Wholesale & Retail; Cushion's; Braids; Perfumery; Wigs., and For further information, consult library staff.
A satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower design. A blunderbuss is used as powdering horn. With an address to the public below and key to numbered references below. Pictures on the walls amplifying the subject
Description:
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Caption below image begins: To the public. Whereas the wonderful powers of this useful machine are yet but little known ..., and Possibly the original of no. 15654 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gearing, Hair preparations, Hairdressing, Inventions, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
Title from item., Plate from: The court and city magazine. London: Printed for Joseph Smith, at No. 15, Pater-noster Row, 1770-1771, v.1 (1770)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: French headdresses -- Hairdressing implements: puffer -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Attribution above image mostly erased from this impression; mounted to 18 x 13 cm.
"Satire on the pretentions of the English to French elegance. A portly middle-aged Englishman sits on chair, his feet not reaching the ground, draped in a protective gown, while a tall French hairdresser puffs powder on his wig; behind is a portrait of a dancing bear being dressed by two monkeys; on the floor is a book lettered, "A Six Weeks Tour to Paris" and from the Englishman's pocket protrudes "Rules for the Alemande [a German dance]"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Anglois a Paris
Description:
Titled in English and French below image; above the larger English title is the smaller French title: L'Anglois a Paris., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: French hairdresser -- Hairdressing implements: powder puff -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furnishings: ornate picture frame -- Furnishings: chair -- Dancing: allusion to allemande -- Books: tour guides., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, at No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
