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Such things are Telles choses sont   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Such things are Telles choses sont
Description
English: Four figures of ladies caricaturing the dress of the period. The upper pair face each other in profile, one with feathers in her much puffed-out hair, the other with a wide hat tied under her chin (a Werter hat, cf. BMSat 7054). Below, one (left) stands full-face, the other stands in profile to the left with her head in back view, showing the arrangement of her hair. The fashions satirized are the puffed-out breasts, see BMSat 7099, &c, the false 'derrières', see BMSat 6874, &c., hairdressing and large muffs, see BMSat 7244, &c. The hair is much extended on each side of the head and divided at the back by a queue reaching below the waist. Beneath the title is engraved:



'That Such Things are most strange yet common
What Things ? for sure they are not Women.' 2 April 1787


Hand-coloured etching
Date 1787
date QS:P571,+1787-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 342 millimetres
Width: 239 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1851,0901.350
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VI, 1938)

The plate closely resembles BMSat 7253, and one must have been copied from the other. According to Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy; 'Reminiscences', 1904, i. 328, but he appears to have been anticipated by Dent, see BMSat 7251.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1851-0901-350
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