A hairdresser stands on stilts to dress the hair of a lady who sits before her mirrored vanity, her fee outstretched and resting on a foot stool. He pulls her long hair high above her head to its full length is taut as he twists to style it. She holds the sides of her head in pain. His coat is tossed on the chair to the left. On her vanity are a pin cushion, bottles, and ribbons. The mirror is supported but two female figures in classical dress and adorned with two cherubs at the top who hold a laurel wreath
Description:
Title etched below image., After Louis Gameray and published by Pierre La Mésangère. See British Museum online catalogue registration number: 1861,1012.197., Series title and number etched above image, Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1814., and Pierre La Mésangère, located on rue Montmatre in Paris.
Publisher:
La Mésangère
Subject (Geographic):
France and Paris
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Pride, and Stilts
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. [Bottom image]: A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word 'Paris'. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram's head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Titles etched below images., Variant state lacking year in artist's signature. For a state with "1814" etched after both instances of John Nixon's "J.N." initials, see nos. 12409 and 12410 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate, each with individual title and statements of responsibility etched below., Plate numbered "236" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"[Top image]: A plump, comely woman sits full-face behind a table whose surface forms the base of the design. Her dress is cut low, and her hair piled in a pyramid; her back is reflected in a large wall-mirror. On the table are trays filled with cards, dishes of fruit, a reading lamp, and a plant in a pot. A thin elderly woman, similarly dressed, stands looking at her in profile to the right. [Bottom image]: A fashionably dressed woman sits in profile to the left, at an ornate table raised above the floor of the café, studying a pamphlet or menu on which is the word 'Paris'. Her arm-chair is decorated with ornaments, the arm terminating in a ram's head. Customers and waiters (left) are on a smaller scale. Columns with ornate capitals support the roof, and the wall is decorated with large paintings of nude and heroic figures."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Titles etched below images., Variant state lacking year in artist's signature. For a state with "1814" etched after both instances of John Nixon's "J.N." initials, see nos. 12409 and 12410 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Publisher and date of publication from description of variant state in the British Museum catalogue., Two images on one plate, each with individual title and statements of responsibility etched below., Plate numbered "236" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.1 x 24.6 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 80 in volume 4.
