print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,5.111
- Title
- Object: The French lady in London or the head dress for the year 1771
- Description
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Satire on fashion: a lady with absurdly high coiffure enters a grand room alarming a gentleman, a parrot, a cat and a small dog; as the man leaps up he knocks over a table so that a scroll lettered 'Lecture upon Heads' (by George Stevens, see BM Satires 4113, BL 13.E.E.b.192/1); on the wall behind is a picture of the peak of Tenerife and above the door, a picture of 'The Geese watching the Capitol'. 2 April 1771
Engraving
- Production date
- 1771
- Dimensions
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Height: 354 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to 'The English lady at Paris', BMSat 4785. Grimm's original drawing, in reverse, is in the Yale Center for British Art (see Richard Godfrey, 'English caricature 1620 to the present', V&A 1984, cat.58).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2002 Jan-March, Newcastle, Hatton Gall, Followers of Fashion
2002 June-July, Belfast, Ulster Mus, Followers of Fashion
2002 Aug-Sep, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, Followers of Fashion
2002/3 Dec-Feb, Brighton MAG, Followers of Fashion
2003 April-June, Braintree District Mus, Followers of Fashion
2010 June-Sep, London, Tate Britain, Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,5.111
