Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1776 / Subject Heading: Hairstyles

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1. A Scotch reel [graphic].

Published / Created:: July 11, 1776.
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 5. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Two couples dancing a reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable, see British Museum Satires No. 5370, &c. The man on the left is short, ungainly, and very fat, he walks rather than dances. The other man dances with ener...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Dance, and Couples
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > A Scotch reel [graphic].

2. Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].

Published / Created:: [13 June 1776]
Call Number:: 776.06.13.01+
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: A young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair ...
Description:: Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells.
Publisher:: Pub. 13 June 1776 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Women domesticss, Wigs, Hairstyles, Cooks, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Mops & mopsticks, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cats, Apes, Cheese, and Vegetables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].

3. Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].

Published / Created:: published as the act directs [1776]
Call Number:: 776.00.00.13+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A satire on the "macaroni' hairstyles for women: a man seated on a bench (left) in a park stares at two women with fashionable macaroni hair pieces as they walk past him, left to right. The two women are accompanied by a lap-dog and a black page boy
Alternative Title:: Female fashionable follies
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Black people, Benches, Boys, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].

4. Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].

Published / Created:: [19 April 1776]
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "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...
Alternative Title:: America's head dress and America's headdress
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: United States and England
Subject (Topic):: Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].

5. Bunters Hill, or, May day [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1 May 1776]
Call Number:: 776.05.01.02
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A woman facing right under an enormous coiffure. Within her hair several scenes illustrate London low-life on May Day, including pigs, a horse-drawn cart, street-vendors, chimney-sweeps, and a Jack-in-the-green
Alternative Title:: May day
Description:: Title from item.
Publisher:: Pubd. according to act of Parlt. May 1, 1776 by J. Lockington Shug Lane
Subject (Geographic):: London (England), Great Britain, United States, America., and England
Subject (Topic):: Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, May Day (Labor holiday), Social life and customs, Politics and government, History, Colonies, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Chimney sweeps
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bunters Hill, or, May day [graphic].

6. Can you forbear laughing [graphic].

Creator:: Dawe, Philip, printmaker
Published / Created:: as the act directs 14 June 1776.
Call Number:: 776.06.14.01+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
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 tai...
Description:: Title from caption below image.
Publisher:: Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain and England
Subject (Topic):: Fashion, Chickens, Clothing & dress, Feathers, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Ostriches, Peacocks, and Servants
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Can you forbear laughing [graphic].

7. Cupid's tower [graphic] .

Published / Created:: [1 March 1776]
Call Number:: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:: Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looki...
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: Pubd. March 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, and Cupids
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Cupid's tower [graphic] .

8. Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

Creator:: Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, printmaker
Published / Created:: Apl. 15, 1776 [not before 16 May 1776]
Call Number:: Quarto 53 C46 776
Collection Title:: After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe
Description:: Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She w...
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):: Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

9. Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]

Creator:: Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779, printmaker
Published / Created:: Apl. 15, 1776.
Call Number:: 776.04.15.01.1+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Seven figures walking toward the right, the Duchess of Kingston leading the way and uttering the words "By God and ...", with three fashionably dressed young women behind her, one carrying a bottle labelled "Cordial." Following them are a very corpule...
Description:: On lower right beneath design: "Price 1 sh."
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):: England
Subject (Name):: Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):: Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Pharmacists, Physicians, and Clergy
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Iphigenia's late procession from Kingston to Bristol [graphic]