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1. Can you forbear laughing [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dawe, Philip, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- as the act directs 14 June 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.06.14.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion, Chickens, Clothing & dress, Feathers, Hairdressing, Hairstyles, Ostriches, Peacocks, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Can you forbear laughing [graphic].
2. The feather'd fair in a fright [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [July 1777?]
- Call Number:
- 777.07.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a landscape setting, two young women fashionably attired, and with their elaborate hairstyles adorned with ostrich plumes, flee towards the left pursued by two angry and plucked ostriches. The foremost bird lunges at the feathers on the head of one of his victims, who wards him off with her fan while the lady's dog recoils at his approach
- Alternative Title:
- Feathered fair in a fright
- Description:
- Title from item., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in plate: 357., and Date erased from this impression?
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Ostriches, Animal attacks, and Dogs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The feather'd fair in a fright [graphic]
3. The ostrich [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1756]
- Call Number:
- 756.00.00.67
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered '46' in upper right corner., Three lines of text below image: That veteran in iniquity who like the silly ostrich thinking himself invisible ..., Plate prepared for: England's remembrancer, or, A humorous, sarcastical, and political collection of characters and caricaturas ... London, 1759., and Reversed copy of no. 3396 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Ostriches
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ostrich [graphic].
