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55. The bears escape, or, Frizzle in an uproar [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [7 June 1786]
- Call Number:
- 786.06.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on 18th-century English hairdressing and women’s fashion: a view of a London shop, presumably "The Rose" (note the large rose above the doorway), a hairdressing and wig-making shop owned by William Vickery (active circa 1783-1832). The shop is shown with double bay windows on the ground floor in which are displayed enormous wigs decorated with feathers. Men and women lean out of the windows on the upper level to watch a pair of bears escaping from the front door. The bears -- one saying to the other "Run brother Run, if were caught were Kill’d as sure as a Gun" -- are pursued by the proprietor of the shop and another woman. The shopfront is covered with advertisements for the real services and products offered by Vickery including Bears Grease, Soft Pomatums, Sticking Plaister, Curling Irons as well as "La Tete Transparante" and "Figaro Braids". A woman fleeing from the bears has lost her elaborate wig and is shown bald
- Alternative Title:
- Frizzle in an uproar
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd June 7, 1786, by S. Hooper, No. 212 High Holborn
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Vickery, William.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Storefronts, Bay windows, Hairdressing, Bears, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The bears escape, or, Frizzle in an uproar [graphic].
56. The boarding-school hair-dresser [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- 24 Septr. 1786.
- Call Number:
- 786.09.24.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A hairdresser stands working on the coiffeur of a girl seated in a chair. On the table beside the girl rests a guitar and sheets of music
- Alternative Title:
- Boarding school hairdresser
- Description:
- Title from item., Number '144' appears in lower left corner of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Capes (Clothing), Hairdressing, Hats, Guitars, Musical instruments, and Wallpapers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The boarding-school hair-dresser [graphic].
57. The fashionable advertiser
- Published / Created:
- [10 February 1787]
- Call Number:
- 787.02.10.03
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A half length portrait of Major Topham, directed to the right and wearing a round hat. He frowns disconsolately. Behind him on the wall is a newspaper inscribed 'The Worlb' [sic, i.e. The World], a comb and pair of curling-tongs, and (on a table) an inkstand with pens."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides, resulting in loss of text at beginning and end of imprint. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pub'd Feby. 10th, 1787, by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No.3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Topham, Edward, 1751-1820
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairdressing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fashionable advertiser
58. The lilly-white maccaroni [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [approximately 1774]
- Call Number:
- 774.00.00.04
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dandy shown full-length seated to right, holding a phial to his nose and gazing at his reflection while a hairdresser prepares to attach a looped queue to his wig
- Alternative Title:
- Lily-white maccaroni and Lily-white macaroni
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Carington Bowles was located at this address between 1766 and 1793; date of 1774 based on other prints in a series on the same topic., Numbered '210' in lower left corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Braids (Hairdressing), Clothing & dress, Dandies, Hairdressing, Mirrors, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The lilly-white maccaroni [graphic].
59. The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- March 20, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and vegetables, several of which already adorn the first woman's hair
- Alternative Title:
- Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5370 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., On leaf 27., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm., and Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with loss of year from end of imprint statement.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
60. The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- March 20, 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.03.20.01+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and vegetables, several of which already adorn the first woman's hair
- Alternative Title:
- Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5370 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The preposterous head dress, or, The featherd lady [graphic].
61. The toilet [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- as the act directs 24 July, 1786.
- Call Number:
- 786.07.24.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Young woman sitting before a dressing table, her face showing in an oval mirror. There are hairpins strewn about and small boxes with cosmetics on the table
- Description:
- Title etched below image. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Robert Sayer, map and printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and London.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dressing tables, Wallpapers, Rugs, Hairdressing, Dressing and grooming equipment, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The toilet [graphic].
62. The utility of cork rumps 1777, [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.06.09.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed young woman stands before the mirror on her dressing table, a box of pins in her hand. Standing behind her on her huge bustle or "cork rump", her bespectacled hairdresser arranges her mountainous headdress, consisting of rows of curls on the sides and topped by rows of vegetables with ostrich plumes at the summit. A maid carrying a basket of feathers and vegetables approaches on the right
- Description:
- Title from item.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd the act directs June 9, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Skirts, Dressing tables, Interiors, Women domestics, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The utility of cork rumps 1777, [graphic].
63. Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs 24 March 1788.
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The interior of a barber's shop. The barber, ranting and gesticulating wildly, holds up the open tragedy of Alexander the Great; in his right hand is a pair of tongs. His hair hangs loose and on his head is his barber's basin. He is fashionably dressed, but wears an apron, which, blowing aside in his violent action, displays a large hole in his breeches. A stool, jug, &c, have been overturned, hair-pins lie on the ground, a cat flees in alarm. His little apprentice (left), holding a wig and a tress of hair, looks on with amusement, as do a man and woman (right) who look over a flight of stairs which ascends from the room. The room is a poor one, with plaster coming from the wall, a broken candle on the chimney-piece, over which is a torn print of a tragedy-king reclining on a couch. Two wig-boxes stand on the floor, one inscribed 'Tragedy Wigs', the other 'Comedy Wigs'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Numbered "588" in lower left corner., No. 38 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- Printed for & sold by Carrington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Actors, Apprentices, Barbers, Barber shops, Cats, Dressing & grooming equipment, Interiors, Laughter, Hairdressing, Poverty, Tragedies, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tragedy burlesqued, or, The barber turned actor [graphic].
