Six stages of mending a face [graphic].

Creator:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.

Published/Created:

[London]
S. W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
1792 May 29

Copyright Date:

[29 May 1792]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 27 x 37 cm

Related Links:

http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/brbldl_getrec.asp?fld=img&id=11792448

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Attributed to Rowlandson by Grego.
Line of text below title: Dedicated with respect to the Right Honble. Lady Archer.
Companion print to: Six stages of marring a face.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
CtY-LW

Abstract:

"The head and shoulders of Lady Archer at different stages of her toilet. In the first (right), wearing a night-cap, with unsightly pendent breasts, she looks up to the left, tears falling from an empty eye-socket, her gaping mouth showing toothless jaws. In the next she fits in an eye, in the third she places a wig on her head, in the fourth (below on the right) she fits in a set of false teeth; in the next she applies rouge to her cheeks with a hare's foot, holding a mirror. In the last (left) she appears a pretty young woman, holding a mask in her hand. In the last two stages her arms, which were skinny and muscular, have become smooth and rounded and her breasts have been covered with the gauze drapery then fashionable."--British Museum online catalogue

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1790-1800.
Grooming.
Mirrors.
Teeth.
Wigs.

Topics:

Archer, Sarah West,--Lady,--1741-1801--Caricatures and cartoons.
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Riviere & Son Binding.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1792.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1792.

Format:

Image

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Public

Source Creator:

Harvey, Francis

Source Title:

The political and humourous works of Thomas Rowlandson, 1774-1825

Source Created:

London

Call Number:

792.05.29.02+
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 4

Box:

Volume 4

Folder:

Folder IV-45

Orbis Record:

7816734

Yale Collection:

LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings

Digital Collection:

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

oid pointer:

11792448

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 8174
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 308

Extent of digitization:

Complete folder digitized.

OID:

11791644

PID:

digcoll:3996225