Sujet

A wig shop, c1780-1825. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson.

Légende

A wig shop, c1780-1825. 'The two old ladies examining a girlish headdress displayed by the wigmaker are delightfully satisfied with the model, if one can judge from their expressions. No doubt the wigmaker has convinced them that this special coiffure will reduce their age immeasurably, while the assistant patiently holds a mirror until the critical trying-on moment takes place. Even the poodle's head is trimmed in such a way as to resemble his mistress' wig'. From "The Watercolour Drawings of Thomas Rowlandson from the Albert H. Wiggin Collection in the Boston Public Library" with commentary by Arthur W. Heintzelman. [Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., New York, 1947]

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Amanda Waite

Notre référence

HRM21B50_013

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

72,2Mo (7,7Mo) / 50,0cm x 36,2cm / 5902 x 4274 (300dpi)

Mots clés

animal female women woman people male interior library work job man men pet bald shopping shop shops arts painting dog dogs art trade guy occupation British color feathers humour funny feather hair century drawing customer customers Britain profession inside mirror mirrors overweight hairstyle wig wigs lady concept vanity fat trying on vain poodle old woman coiffure Colour old Lady looking glass 19th century Indoors 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century shop assistant women at work wigmaker working caricature satire watercolour wig-maker old women Thomas Rowlandson Rowlandson Thomas Shirley Markham 19th-century Boston Public Library Arthur William Heintzelman Heintzelman Arthur William Arthur W. Heintzelman Arthur W.