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A Lady putting On Her Cap

Print
1795 (etched)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This caricature makes fun of the female fashion for turban-style headgear at the end of the eighteenth century and the amount of cloth need to create them. The comic idea of a cute and playful dog tugging at one end of the cloth recurred in British television adverts for toilet paper, two hundred years later.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA Lady putting On Her Cap (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Etching coloured by hand
Brief description
Satirical print
Physical description
Satirical etching
Dimensions
  • Height: 24.1cm
  • Width: 35cm
cut to
Credit line
Bequeathed by Frank A. Gibson
Subjects depicted
Summary
This caricature makes fun of the female fashion for turban-style headgear at the end of the eighteenth century and the amount of cloth need to create them. The comic idea of a cute and playful dog tugging at one end of the cloth recurred in British television adverts for toilet paper, two hundred years later.
Collection
Accession number
E.118-1989

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Record createdJune 6, 2007
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