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 ...
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
Leaf 6. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a closed carriage made visible by being bisected longitudinally. In it two young ladies of pleasing appearance sit face to face in profile, apparently on the floor, or on very low seats, to make room for their monstrous mounds of hair...
Alternative Title:
Vis-à-vis bisected, or, The ladies coop and Ladies coop
Depicts a young lady, fashionably dressed, walking and carrying an enormous parasol to cover her monumental hair, which is dressed in the extravagant heart-shaped style of the period, with curls on the sides, flowers and ostrich plumes at the top. She...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to Act of Part. Septr 1, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Umbrellas
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Elegantly coiffed and dressed lady faces to the right holding fan, while behind her and facing away stands another woman with a similar dress and hair style
Three clergymen, one wearing mortarboard and another with clerical bands are seated around a table, each holding a young woman on his lap. Two of the women, who appear to be prostitutes, are bare-breasted, and all wear their hair in the high heart-sha...
Alternative Title:
Wolves in sheeps clothing
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. 23 May, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergymen, Courtesans, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 108. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Plate 5 of a series of courtesans, see British Museum Satires No. 5177, the title here implying that the subject is the keeper of a brothel. A woman in profile to the right. of dignified and refined appearance. Her hair is fashionably dressed over a ...
Alternative Title:
Lady abbess of the first class
Description:
Title from earlier state.
Publisher:
Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, March 30, 1773, (39) Strand
Leaf 107. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Plate of a series of courtesans, see British Museum Satires No. 5177. A woman in profile to the right wearing a cap whose frill conceals her eye and much of her cheek."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Nun of the second class
Description:
Title from earlier state.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Courtesans, Prostitutes, and Hats
Leaf 108. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Plate 6 of a series of courtesans: In all, the design is in an oval, enclosed in an oblong of the same dimensions, the oval and the rectangle being differentiated by engraved lines of different patterns. A young woman in profile to the right, her hai...
Alternative Title:
Nun of the third class
Description:
Title from earlier state.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Courtesans, Prostitutes, and Earrings
Leaf 107. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Plate 3 of a series of courtesans, see British Museum Satires No. 5177. A young woman in profile to the right wearing an elaborate cap, the frill of which conceals her eye. Her chin is patched. Her hair is fashionably dressed, her dress cut low; she ...
Alternative Title:
Nun of the sixth class
Description:
Title from earlier state.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Courtesans, Prostitutes, and Hats
