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1. Changez moi cette tête [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [19 January 1784]
- Call Number:
- 784.01.19.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the changing fashions for women, with women in a shop buying new heads, backsides, legs etc."--British Museum online catalogue and Interior of a crowded shop, with shelves of elaborately-coiffed human heads. A sword lies on the floor, evidently having been employed to behead a lady who stands having her new head put in place by a shop assistant. Next to her is another lady having her head struck off by a man wielding mallet and chisel. On the far right a tall lady appears to be shopping for false bosoms and derrières. The doors to the shop bear signs "Avis au public: Têtes a changer." With 18 lines of French verse below design
- Description:
- Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by H. Humphrey, Jany. 19, 1784 No. 51 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Decapitations, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Changez moi cette tête [graphic].
2. Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 21. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman is seen from behind, walking away from the viewer with her head turned to the left. A boy holds her right hand and a smaller girl holds her left hand. An instrument hangs from a strap around her shoulders. On the rise above her to the right is a house, and a town is visible in the distance on the left
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 25 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Peasants, Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]
3. Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]
- Creator:
- Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [10 July 1784]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 21. Bunbury
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A young woman is seen from behind, walking away from the viewer with her head turned to the left. A boy holds her right hand and a smaller girl holds her left hand. An instrument hangs from a strap around her shoulders. On the rise above her to the right is a house, and a town is visible in the distance on the left
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 21 of: Bunbury album., and 1 print : stipple engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 36.3 x 28.7 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- France.
- Subject (Topic):
- Peasants, Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Paysanne de la Maurianne [graphic]