{"product_id":"folly-1771-gkjm6vh2","title":"The Folly of 1771.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVery Rare - not in the British Museum.\u003c\/strong\u003e We have located only one other example of this print at the \u003cstrong\u003eLewis Walpole Library at Yale.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rare and unusual satire on the excesses of 18th-century women’s fashion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSee also the engraving in the British Museum, \u003cem\u003eThe French Lady in London, or the Head Dress for the Year 1771\u003c\/em\u003e, which shows a woman with a hair style so tall that she has trouble entering a room (BM J,5.111).\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47878520307869,"sku":"262879","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/2xch562_01.jpg?v=1777435268","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/folly-1771-gkjm6vh2","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}