"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
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.
A lady holding a fan is seated in a chair and tipped backwards by the weight of her coffure which appears to be several feet high. Two young men also having extremely tall coiffures attend her, one pointing to the formal gardens and the other bending over a small boy in leading strings. A gardener on a ladder stands above the group, while a small dog urinates on the woman's skirts
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Sheet rimmed within plate mark., and Date and place of publication surmised from costume.
