A domestic scene in a dressing room with a maid assisting a lady as she dresses, placing ornaments in her mistress's hair. A young girl sitting in a chair reads to a little boy who leans on her knee and looks lovingly into her face. A hat box rests on a high boy (left); another hat box and hair accessories sit on a table and chair to the right
Description:
Title engraved below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published April the 7th, 1789, by Ino. Matthews, No. 441 Strand
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Conversing.
Publisher:
Published April 7th, 1789, by Jno. Matthews, No. 441 Strand
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
Surugue, Louis, approximately 1686 -1762, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[1745]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Allegorical scene with Decrepitude as an old woman in extravagant costume putting another beauty spot on her face and looking at her reflection in a mirror on a washstand, while Madness personified by young woman with fool's bauble hanging from a sash is helping her getting dressed; above them, Cupid flying with arrow in his hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., See no. 2211 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3., and On page 72 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Chez L. Surugue graveur du roy ruë des Noyers, attenant le Magazin de Papier vis-a-vis St. Yves, A.P.D.R.
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Aging, Clothing & dress, Cupids, Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Mirrors, and Women domestics
In an elegant bedroom a young woman sits at her dressing table looking at her reflection in the mirror. At her side is a barber with combs in his apron gestures at her image which shows the elaborate high hair of the fashion. Embroidered curtains hang over her canopied bed; the room is decorated with wallpaper and a patterned rug, curtains on the window, and a sash behing the dressing table
Description:
Title from item. and Date conjectured from costume.
"An effeminate dandy, elongated and with very thin arms and legs, leans back in a chair, one thin arm drooping to the ground, the other curving over his head, his fingers caressing a curl on his forehead. He gazes sideways with a languishing smile at his reflection in the toilet-table glass. He has a thread-like moustache, blue tail-coat with high collar and sleeves, a rose in the button-hole, a white collar and cravat, white waistcoat with a long gold watch-chain round the neck, long light pantaloons, tight from the knee, full at the waist; low pumps with very-pointed toes. On the dressing-table are brush and comb, stoppered bottle, &c, and long tube-like bottle (of Eau de Cologne). Behind (right) on a similar chair a monkey squats admiring its face in a hand-glass. The room is bare, but carpeted to the wall."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Exquisite at his devotions
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to Crowquill from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on upper edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. by E. King 23 Chancery Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, Dressing tables, Mirrors, Monkeys, and Rugs
"A scene from a play: a soldier admired by a lady at her dressing table stands before a table of heads and ghosts, with an elderly couple to the right."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monsieur Alexandre in The rogueries of Nicholas
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 3s."--Below image in lower right., and Matted to 39 x 48 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22nd Jany. 1825 by Wm. Heath at the new Panorama, 15 Grafton St., Dublin, and Henry Heath, London
Subject (Name):
Alexandre, Nicholas Marie,
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, Dressing tables, Ghosts, Nuns, and Theatrical productions
Title from the first line of verse below image., Publication date from publisher's address., Sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in loss of part of image and possibly title at top of plate., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: See here presented to your view / A scene both frolicksome and true ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Pictures amplifying subject.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Bryer, engraver & printseller, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Bedrooms, Cross dressing, Dressing tables, Fireplaces, Interiors, Mirrors, and Prostitutes
"Lady Archer sits in profile to the right before her dressing-table, applying rouge to her cheek with a brush. Her notoriously painted cheek is blotched with drink. She is dressed for driving, wearing a coat of masculine cut, and a skirt which is short enough to show stockings above laced half-boots. A high-crowned hat trimmed with feathers is poised on her hair; on her vulture-like nose glasses are perched, her profile being reflected in the draped mirror. Through an open window (left) appears her high phaeton."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 37 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Sepr. 29th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
"A pretty young woman leans back in an arm-chair while a hairdresser applies paint to her face from a small box. She wears a morning-gown which leaves her breast much exposed. A woman (left) stands full-face behind her chair pouring out a glass of 'Hollands'. On the right is a dressing-table. L. & W., No. 127 (where the title continues, 'of an Impure's Face')."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue; original drawing is in the Huntington Library., No. 127 in Laurie & Whittle Drolls series., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdressers -- Female costume: morning dress -- Furniture -- Domestic service: woman-servant -- Beverages., and Watermark (partial): Strasburg bend, top of sheet.
Publisher:
Published 13th Octr. 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, No. 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Cosmetics, Dressing tables, Women domestics, and Wine
