The Female Pyramid (BM Y,4.551)
Summary
Satire on fashion: a French hairdresser mounts a ladder to arrange with tongs the curls of a lady with an enormous coiffure, while another man wearing an indoor cap, evidently her husband, looks on holding a telescope; a plate from 'The Oxford Magazine' for 1771 facing p.129 where a similar scene is described.
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Date
1600 - 1700
Source
British Museum
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public domain