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A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward.
- Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809
- Date:
- [1803?-1806] ;
- Reference:
- 662684i
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Credit: A lady retiring to bed, and ordering her maid to look after her artificial aids to beauty (wig, teeth, glass eye etc.). Coloured etching by P. Roberts after G.M Woodward. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Publication/Creation
London (28 Middle-row Holborn) : Pub'd by P. Roberts, [1803?-1806] ; London (111 Cheapside) : T. Tegg, [1807?]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 35 x 26.5 cm
Lettering
Celia retiring. Woodward delin. Etch'd by Roberts.
References note
Not in: British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires
Lettering note
She says: "Molly, mind what I say to you. Lay my wig on the top of the drawers. Take care of my bosom and don't rumple it. Lay my eye in the dressing box, and the row of teeth by the side of it. And call in again for my eyebrows. Lay everything in such a manner that I may easily find them in the morning, as I wish to be made up by 12 precisely, in order to meet my Lord Ban-dash."
Bears number: 298
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 662684i
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- English
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