Caption title., An advertisement in verse, with two columns of letterpress text beginning "With humblest deference we greet ..."; wood-engraved illustration at top depicting two ladies trying on wigs both facing a bust with "Princes' Royal" on plinth; an "Explanation" printed below in five lines; all within a typographic ornament border., Date of publication from English short title catalogue., Printer prossibly W. Bailey located at 28 Great Tower Street, London. Cf. Heal, 99.22 & 23 advertise "At Bailey's Printing-Office... Shop-Bills, Hand-Bills, &c. of this Size and Paper, are printed for six Shillings a Thousand; and on an inferior Paper of this Size, for five Shillings a Thousand ...", Sheet trimmed with loss of most of the imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
A satirical depiction of a machine which shaves six people in a line using a brush and razor which slide along a bar worked by a cogwheel turned by a man. In the lower left, a barber tends to a wig with curling tongs; a pile of hats along the lower design. A blunderbuss is used as powdering horn. With an address to the public below and key to numbered references below. Pictures on the walls amplifying the subject
Description:
Title from caption above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Caption below image begins: To the public. Whereas the wonderful powers of this useful machine are yet but little known ..., and Possibly the original of no. 15654 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 11.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Gearing, Hair preparations, Hairdressing, Inventions, Shaving equipment, and Wigs
A lady, seated and in fashionable dress wears a towering coiffure, which a French hairdresser adjusts her curls from behind while standing on the topmost rungs of a ladder. In front of the woman a naval officer sights through an octant to the top of her hairdo
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairdressing, Astronomical instruments, Ladders, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
"Satire on fashion: a French hairdresser mounts a ladder to arrange with tongs the curls of a lady with an enormous coiffure, while another man with a long queue, evidently her husband, holds a sextant to measure the height."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies absurdity
Description:
Title engraved below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Naval officers -- Military uniforms -- Naval officer's uniform -- Trades: hairdressers -- Furnishings -- Carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Hairdressing implements: curling tongs -- Step ladders -- Naval instruments: quadrant., and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt., July 15th 1771, by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, & R. Sayer at the Golden Buck, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Floor coverings, Ladders, and Sextants
A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene. A butcher's boy with a large tray stands in the street equally amused by the scene
Alternative Title:
Sleight of hand by a monkey and Lady's head unloaded
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from Horace Walpole's impression in the New York Public Library., and Plate numbered '344' in lower left corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Apple orchards, Hairdressing, Butchers, Clothing & dress, and Monkeys
A lady walking along a high orchard wall has her enormous headdress, trimmed wtih lace and ribbons, pulled from her head by a monkey perched atop the wall. She clasps her hand to her bare head, a look of surprise on her face. A man perched on a ladder picking apples in the orchard looks over the wall in amusement at the scene
Alternative Title:
Sleight of hand by a monkey, or, The ladys head unloaded and Ladys head unloaded
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication date from Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on right edge., Numbered '23' in upper right corner., Probably a copy of a mezzotint with the same title that was published in 1776 by Carington Bowles. Cf. No. 4546 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Apple orchards, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, Monkeys, and Wigs
Title from item., Plate from: The court and city magazine. London: Printed for Joseph Smith, at No. 15, Pater-noster Row, 1770-1771, v.1 (1770)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: French headdresses -- Hairdressing implements: puffer -- Pictures amplifying subject., and Attribution above image mostly erased from this impression; mounted to 18 x 13 cm.
"Satire on the pretentions of the English to French elegance. A portly middle-aged Englishman sits on chair, his feet not reaching the ground, draped in a protective gown, while a tall French hairdresser puffs powder on his wig; behind is a portrait of a dancing bear being dressed by two monkeys; on the floor is a book lettered, "A Six Weeks Tour to Paris" and from the Englishman's pocket protrudes "Rules for the Alemande [a German dance]"."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Anglois a Paris
Description:
Titled in English and French below image; above the larger English title is the smaller French title: L'Anglois a Paris., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: French hairdresser -- Hairdressing implements: powder puff -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Furnishings: ornate picture frame -- Furnishings: chair -- Dancing: allusion to allemande -- Books: tour guides., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Printed for Jno. Smith, at No. 35 Cheapside, & Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
A satire on 18th-century English hairdressing and women’s fashion: a view of a London shop, presumably "The Rose" (note the large rose above the doorway), a hairdressing and wig-making shop owned by William Vickery (active circa 1783-1832). The shop is shown with double bay windows on the ground floor in which are displayed enormous wigs decorated with feathers. Men and women lean out of the windows on the upper level to watch a pair of bears escaping from the front door. The bears -- one saying to the other "Run brother Run, if were caught were Kill’d as sure as a Gun" -- are pursued by the proprietor of the shop and another woman. The shopfront is covered with advertisements for the real services and products offered by Vickery including Bears Grease, Soft Pomatums, Sticking Plaister, Curling Irons as well as "La Tete Transparante" and "Figaro Braids". A woman fleeing from the bears has lost her elaborate wig and is shown bald
Alternative Title:
Frizzle in an uproar
Description:
Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 7, 1786, by S. Hooper, No. 212 High Holborn
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Vickery, William.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Storefronts, Bay windows, Hairdressing, Bears, and Wigs
A hairdresser stands working on the coiffeur of a girl seated in a chair. On the table beside the girl rests a guitar and sheets of music
Alternative Title:
Boarding school hairdresser
Description:
Title from item., Number '144' appears in lower left corner of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Capes (Clothing), Hairdressing, Hats, Guitars, Musical instruments, and Wallpapers
