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A hint to husbands, or the dresser, properly dressed   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Philip Dawe

Published by: Sayer & Bennett
Title
A hint to husbands, or the dresser, properly dressed
Description
English: A lady sits at her dressing-table, while a hair-dresser attends to her elaborate coiffure. She turns round in astonishment towards her husband (right), who has entered from an open door and threatens the hairdresser with uplifted riding-whip and clenched fist. He is in riding-dress. A maidservant enters behind him, smiling insolently, her left hand on her hip, her right held up, the first two fingers extended. The lady's hair is dressed in the elaborate fashion of the period, a pyramid with curls, decorated with pearls, and an enormous head-dress of feathers. She wears a lace-trimmed wrapper over her low-cut dress. In her right hand is a brush or pencil for the complexion; the other is outstretched in alarm. The hairdresser, who wears an enormous toupet wig, with side-curls and large looped club, is smoothing her hair with a comb. On the wall are two family portraits: a man with a beard (half length) and a lady (three-quarter length) wearing a ruff. The floor is of boards without a carpet. 25 January 1777
Mezzotint
Date 1776
date QS:P571,+1776-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 352 millimetres
Width: 250 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.71
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) For satires on this type of hairdressing see BMSat 5370, &c.

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Dorothy George's attribution to Dawe is very probable. See also the reduced version: 2010,7081.1859
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-71
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