The Feather'd Fair in a Fright, 1779

For a mezzotint from the same picture see bmsat 4550 (1777). It satirizes the fashion of wearing long erect ostrich feathers on the summit of a grotesquely high and elaborately-dressed coiffure. See bmsat 5370, &c. Beneath the print are twelve lines of verse, beginning "two lasses who wou'd like their mistresses shine, on their heads clap'd some feathers, to make them look fine:" 24 june 1779 etching. Date: 1779. Dimensions: Height: 520 mm; Width: 375 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum.