File:A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wi Wellcome V0019836EL.jpg
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[edit]Ridiculous taste or the ladies absurdity | |||
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M. Darly & R. Sayer |
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Ridiculous taste or the ladies absurdity |
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A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wig (which towers above her head in an oval form, and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed by a French hair-dresser who stands on the top of a step-ladder; the woman's husband, a naval officer, is holding a sextant to his eye to ascertain the altitude of the adornment. Caricature lampooning French women's hairstyles of the period shortly before the French Revolution. Imprint [London] (39 Strand) ; Golden Buck Fleet Street : Pubd. accordg. to Act of Parllt. by M. Darly & R. Sayer, 15 July 1771. Iconographic Collections |
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1771 date QS:P571,+1771-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Short title | V0019836EL A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally |
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Author | Wellcome Library, London |
Headline | V0019836EL A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wi |
Copyright holder | Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Image title | V0019836EL A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wi
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk http://wellcomeimages.org A woman seated in a chamber having her exceptionally high wig (which towers above her head in an oval form, and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed by a French hair-dresser who stands on the top of a step-ladder; the woman's husband, a naval officer, is holding a sextant to his eye to ascertain the altitude of the adornment. Engraving 18th Century Published: 15 July 1771 Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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