Betty the cook maids head drest [graphic].[13 June 1776]engA young woman under an enormous heart-shaped coiffure. In the topmost section of her hair is a kitchen fireplace with meat roasting on a spit, and a monkey in a fool's cap sitting on the chimney admiring itself in a mirror. On either side of the hair are kitchen implements, poker, tongs and shovel, a mop, broom, etc., and, in the center, a large wheel of cheese infested by mice. Various vegetables are assembled around the cheese, while a dog and cat confront one another below it.Verse in lower margin: The taste at present all may see, but none can tell what is to be. Who knows when Fashion's whims are spread, but each may wear this kitchen head. The noddle that so vastly swells, may wear a fools cap hung with bells."Price one shill."--Lower margin.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Sheet trimmed with loss of imprint and price. Imprint from impression in the British Museum online catalogue.Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.