A reversed rendition of a design issued by S.W. Fores, with imprint reading: Publishd, April 2nd 1787 by S. W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse N° 3 Piccadilly. Cf. BM Satires, no. 7252.
With two lines of verse below the image: That such things are we must allow, / But such things never were till now.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Four figures of ladies caricaturing the dress of the period. The upper pair face each other in profile, one with feathers in her much puffed-out hair, the other with a wide hat tied under her chin. Below, one (right) stands full-face, the other stands in profile to the right with her head in back view, showing the arrangement of her hair. The fashions satirized are the puffed-out breasts, false 'derrières', and large muffs of the day. The hair is much extended on each side of the head and divided at the back by a queue reaching below the waist. Cf. British Museum online catalog.