print;
satirical print;
broadside
- Museum number
- 1875,0814.2463
- Title
- Object: The Feather'd Fair in a Fright
- Description
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For a mezzotint from the same picture see BMSat 4550 (1777). It satirizes the fashion of wearing long erect ostrich feathers on the summit of a grotesquely high and elaborately-dressed coiffure. See BMSat 5370, &c. Beneath the print are twelve lines of verse, beginning
"Two Lasses who wou'd like their Mistresses shine,
On their Heads clap'd some Feathers, to make them look fine:" 24 June 1779
Etching
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 520 millimetres
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Width: 375 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also Sheila O'Connell, 'The Popular Print in England', BM 1999, cat. 4.51, p. 118.
Collet's watercolour of the subject is in the BM: 1962,0714.21. See also two versions in mezzotint, published by Bowles: 1935,0522.2.36, 2010,7081.1789.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 Oct-Dec, Warwickshire, Compton Verney, Curious Beasts
2014 March-May, Belfast, Ulster Museum, Curious Beasts
2014 June-Aug, Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Curious Beasts
2014 Oct-Dec, San Diego, University Galleries, Curious Beasts
2016-2017 21 Oct-5 Feb, Adelaide, South Australian Museum: ‘Curious Beasts’
- Acquisition date
- 1875
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1875,0814.2463
