Very Rare - not in the British Museum. We have located only one other example of this print at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale.
A rare and unusual satire on the excesses of 18th-century women’s fashion.
The woman at the centre of this image (who is shown reading) has her hair dressed so high that her attendant is forced to use a pair of ladders to reach the top. The woman sits in a fashionably decorated room with suggestive paintings on the wall and in the company of a clergyman with a grotesque nose.
See also the engraving in the British Museum, The French Lady in London, or the Head Dress for the Year 1771, which shows a woman with a hair style so tall that she has trouble entering a room (BM J,5.111).
