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A new opera glass for the year 1777   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Title
A new opera glass for the year 1777
Description
English: Two seated figures (half length) apparently in an opera-box. A fat lady (l.) whose pyramid of hair is flanked with the enormous cylindrical curls then fashionable and surmounted with flowers and feathers, looks in profile to the left. smiling broadly. Her dress is cut low and she wears a necklace of beads or pearls from which hangs a cross. Her companion (r.) sits on the lady's l., looking through one of her curls which he holds in his right. hand; his left. eye is closed. On his coat are visible two of the enormous metal buttons then a subject of caricature, see BMSat 5431, &c. Beneath the title is engraved:



"Behold how Jemmy treats the Fair,
And makes a Telescope of Hair
How will this suit high headed Lasses,
If curls are turn'd to Optic Glasses." 2 April 1777


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Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 194 millimetres
Width: 157 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,1.141
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935)

See BMSat 5436, for the same subject by Darly. For satires on this type of hair-dressing see BMSat 5370, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-1-141
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