print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- J,5.117
- Title
- Object: The lady's maid, or toilet head-dress
- Description
-
A young woman (half length) with her hair in a much exaggerated inverted pyramid which fills the greater part of the design and is the support for a dressing-table, draped with muslin festoons. On it are an oval mirror, a pair of tapers in candlesticks, two vases of flowers, a pincushion, toilet articles, a pair of buckles, rings, a necklace, &c, two books, a pen. n.d.c. 1776
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1776
- Dimensions
-
Height: 203 millimetres
-
Width: 149 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)
One of a number of similar satires, see BMSat 5330, 5335, 5371, 5377-80, 5442, 5448, 5449. For extravagant hairdressing see BMSat 5370, &c.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- J,5.117
