- Published / Created:
- [1814?]
- Call Number:
- 814.00.00.41
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A hairdresser stands on stilts to dress the hair of a lady who sits before her mirrored vanity, her fee outstretched and resting on a foot stool. He pulls her long hair high above her head to its full length is taut as he twists to style it. She holds the sides of her head in pain. His coat is tossed on the chair to the left. On her vanity are a pin cushion, bottles, and ribbons. The mirror is supported but two female figures in classical dress and adorned with two cherubs at the top who hold a laurel wreath
- Description:
- Title etched below image., After Louis Gameray and published by Pierre La Mésangère. See British Museum online catalogue registration number: 1861,1012.197., Series title and number etched above image, Dated in the British Museum catalogue: 1814., and Pierre La Mésangère, located on rue Montmatre in Paris.
- Publisher:
- La Mésangère
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and Paris
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Pride, and Stilts
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Faut apprendre à souffrir pour être Belle [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [21 May 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Monsieur le Frizuer
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 4673 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Second of three plates on leaf 58., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 15.4 x 10.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monr. le Frizuer [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [21 May 1771]
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.1 plate 5
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A French hairdresser with fine coat and small-sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Alternative Title:
- Monsieur le Frizuer
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to Bunbury from the British Museum catalogue., Reissue, with additional numbering; see page 38 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "5" in upper right corner., and For an earlier state, see no. 4673 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. accordg. to act of Parllt. May 21th [sic], 1771, by MDarly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairdressing, and Daggers & swords
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Monr. le Frizuer [graphic].