Dressing for a masquerade [graphic]Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker[1 April 1790]eng"Companion print to BMSat 9678. Four pretty young women are in different stages of dress; a fat woman dressed as (?) a nun, holding a bottle and glass, resembles a bawd. One (left) is having her lank hair combed by a hair-dresser. One, completely dressed, stands in a chair to see her reflection in the small mirror held by a squalid and elderly woman. She wears a quasi-oriental high-crowned turban with floating draperies; one breast is bare; she holds a mask. A young woman wearing a huge cocked hat, shirt, and breeches, puts on a stocking, her foot supported on an overturned chair. The fourth, wearing mask and large feathered hat, adjusts a 'derrière' over her petticoat, standing before a dressing-table and mirror. On the floor are a make-up box, mask, bandbox, &c."--British Museum online catalogueTitle from caption below image.Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges.Companion print to: Dressing for a birthday.Temporary local subject terms: Hairdressing implements -- Mirrors -- Courtesans -- Hairdressers -- Masks -- Female costume: Masquerade -- Derrières -- Hats: Feathered turban -- Make-up boxes -- Masquerade headdress.