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THOMAS ROWLANDSON (1757-1827)
Dressing for a Birthday.
3 Mar 1788RCIN 810267
A hand-coloured print of two women dressing for a royal birthday party. On the left, a bald headed stout lady admires herself in a mirror supported by a boy who plays with a dog as an enormous wig is placed on her head. On the right, a young woman is having her hair dressed as she is shown a new dress by an older woman wearing a wide brimmed hat.
Inscribed in the plate: Rowlandson 1788 / Design'd & etch'd by Tho Rowlandson. / Publish'd as the Act directs, March 3 1788 by F Chesham & M Hatton No 32 Pall Mall
Bibliographic reference(s)
BM Satires 9678 (BM Satires : Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum ... 11 v. in 12.)
