A Lady putting On Her Cap
Print
1795 (etched)
1795 (etched)
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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
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Title | A Lady putting On Her Cap (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Etching coloured by hand |
Brief description | Satirical print |
Physical description | Satirical etching |
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Credit line | Bequeathed by Frank A. Gibson |
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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. |
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Accession number | E.118-1989 |
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Record created | June 6, 2007 |
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