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A speedy and effectual preparation for the next world   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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A speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
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English: A lady sits, in profile to the right., at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass are on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day, cf. BMSat 5370, &c.; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses; it is decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. The lady is of commanding appearance with an aquiline profile, she wears a morning gown.


Behind her back is a rectangular table at which (left) stands a skeleton, both of whose hands are on an hour-glass standing on the table; its sands have run into the lower glass, and have even been spilt on the table. On the table is a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow.
On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right. 1 May 1777


Engraving with hand-colouring
Depicted people Representation of: Mrs Catherine Macauley
Date 1777
date QS:P571,+1777-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 245 millimetres
Width: 350 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Prints and Drawings
Accession number
J,5.109
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(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) On the back of the print Miss Banks has written, "Mrs Macauley. Dr. Wilson's picture". Mrs. Catherine Macaulay (1731-91), the historian and radical, was then living in the house of Dr. Thomas Wilson (a non-resident London rector) in Bath, where she had just received six odes from her admirers on her birthday, 2 Apr. 1777. Her practice of painting her face was well known, Dr. Johnson saying it was better she should "redden her own cheeks" than "blacken other people's characters". In 1778 she married as her second husband William Graham aged 21, and quarrelled with Dr. Wilson. See BMSat 5410, 5598.

For similar satires on hairdressing see BMSat 5370, &c.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_J-5-109
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