"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 tail feathers (which are very unlike peacock's feathers). An ostrich (left), which has lost most of its tail feathers, is about to pluck out those which ornament the lady's hair. A cock stands in the foreground (right), having lost almost all its tail feathers, many of which lie on the floor. A black servant wearing a turban stands on his mistress's right, handing feathers from a number which he holds in his left hand. The lady, who faces three-quarter to the right, is elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day. Her pyramid of hair is decorated with lappets of lace and festoons of jewels as well as with feathers. She wears large earrings, a necklace with a cross, her bodice is cut very low, and her elbow sleeves have lace ruffles. A pannelled wall forms the background."--British Museum online catalog
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker identified as Philip Dawe by Dorothy George. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
"Numerous studies of men carrying different sorts of walking stick."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
As regards, walking sticks
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from description of a variant state in the British Museum that has series numbering following the text "Matters of taste". Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1952,0517.43., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published at Hodgson's Wholesale Print Warehouse, 111 Fleet Street and Lithographed by W. Clerk, 202 High Holborn
