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., Place of publication from publisher's entry in Maxted's The London book trades., and Probably a parody of British Museum catalogue no. 5330: Bunkers Hill.
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
"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
"Satire on the changing fashions for women, with women in a shop buying new heads, backsides, legs etc."--British Museum online catalogue and Interior of a crowded shop, with shelves of elaborately-coiffed human heads. A sword lies on the floor, evidently having been employed to behead a lady who stands having her new head put in place by a shop assistant. Next to her is another lady having her head struck off by a man wielding mallet and chisel. On the far right a tall lady appears to be shopping for false bosoms and derrières. The doors to the shop bear signs "Avis au public: Têtes a changer." With 18 lines of French verse below design
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by H. Humphrey, Jany. 19, 1784 No. 51 New Bond Street
Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
Alternative Title:
Cork rump
Description:
Title from item., State without plate number., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., On leaf 2., and 1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
Alternative Title:
Cork rump
Description:
Title from item., State without plate number., and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
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 looking. She wears the fashionable 'full-dress' of the period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of verse below title: Fair tresses Man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair., and First of two plates on leaf 56.
Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be characters from a print which hangs on the wall behind them, "The back-side of a front row" (British Museum cataloge 5430), who have come to punish the artist for his caricatures. The artist holds in his hand "Miss Shuttle cock" (British Museum catalogue 5376) which also bears the monogram RS, thereby identifying the artist as Richard Sneer. Another print on the wall, entitled "Lex talionis", depicts a person being tossed in a blanket
Alternative Title:
Lady's revenge
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue as Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Quotation beneath design: Heus bone, tu palles? pers., and Annotated with contemporary pencilled identification of subjects above design.
Two elaborate hairstyles, that on the left, shown from the back, a gentleman with a wig having side curls and braids which join together and are tied in a wreath-like arrangement. The woman on the right is shown in profile, her head in a large cap, on the band of which are shown the signs of the zodiac, while stars are affixed to her hair above the forehead
Alternative Title:
A la zodiaque
Description:
Title from item., Sheet cropped within plate mark., and Mounted to 14 x 21 cm.