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    • Title:Miss Prattle consulting Doctor Double Fee about her Pantheon head dress [graphic].
    • Publication:[London] : Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, published as the act directs, 8 Feby. 1772.
    • Physical Description:1 print : mezzotint with etching ; plate mark 35.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 40 x 30 cm
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    • Medium:laid paper
    • Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: tea-cups and saucers -- Furniture: chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: two monkeys drinking tea at a table.
    • Notes:Title etched below image.
      Earlier state without plate number and with publication date. Cf. No. 5092 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
      Exhibited: "Preposterous Headdresses and Feathered Ladies" at The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, CT, May - October 2003.
      Exhibited: "De peinados e individuos," at The Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico, March - May 2010.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Subjects:Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780.
      Dandies--British.
      Hairstyles.
      Lawyers.
      Wigs.
    • Genre/Form:Satires (Visual works)--England--1772.
      Mezzotints--England--London--1772.
    • Also listed under:Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.