A young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair ...
Description:
Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells.
Publisher:
Pub. 13 June 1776 by W. Humphrey Gerrard Street Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Women domesticss, Wigs, Hairstyles, Cooks, Cooking utensils, Fireplaces, Mops & mopsticks, Brooms & brushes, Dogs, Cats, Apes, Cheese, and Vegetables
Leaf 45. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire: a thin Frenchman kneels beseechingly while five women pull his pigtail, pinch his nose and threaten him with a mop."--British Museum online catalogue
On a street corner just outside the door of an adjacent building, a foppish young gentleman who stands with his one hand on his hip and holds a cane in the other, rests his foot on a bucket that he has kicked over. The owner of the bucket, a pretty y...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Cobblestone streets, Dandies, Mops & mopsticks, Relations between the sexes, Servants, and Young women
A young mopping maid clumsily shoves an older gentleman whom reels away flailing his cane in the air. A second onlooker maid laughs at the awkward situation
Description:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Women domestics, Servants, Accidents, Clumsiness, and Mops & mopsticks
