A woman wearing an extraordinarily high wig decorated with beads and lace, discusses her head-dress while taking tea with a man sitting opposite who wears a legal tie wig, gown and bands; on the wall is a framed picture of two monkeys sitting at a table drinking tea. Mezzotint, 1772.

Date:
8 February 1772
Reference:
31720i
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London (No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard) : Publish'd as the Act directs by Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, 8 February 1772.

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1 print : mezzotint ; image 32.6 x 25.3 cm

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Miss Prattle, consulting Doctor Double Fee about her Pantheon head dress.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. V, London 1935, no. 5092
Bill Bryson, Een huis vol: een kleine geschiedenis van het dagelijks leven, Amsterdam 2010, p. 394 (reproduced)

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Wellcome Collection 31720i

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