The feather'd fair in a fright [graphic]

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Title: The feather'd fair in a fright [graphic]
Alternative Title: Feathered fair in a fright
Contributor: Collet, John, 1725?-1780, artist.
Published / Created: [July 1777?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: In a landscape setting, two young women fashionably attired, and with their elaborate hairstyles adorned with ostrich plumes, flee towards the left pursued by two angry and plucked ostriches. The foremost bird lunges at the feathers on the head of one of his victims, who wards him off with her fan while the lady's dog recoils at his approach
Description: Title from item.
Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles."
Numbered in plate: 357.
Date erased from this impression?
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss coll. vol. 2.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.6 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 39 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Satires (Visual works) England 1777
Mezzotints England London 1777
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Fashion
Hairstyles
Clothing & dress
Ostriches
Animal attacks
Dogs
Subjects: Fashion > Early works to 1800
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Ostriches
Animal attacks
Dogs
England > 1777
England > London > 1777

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