Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[19 April 1776]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25 x 17.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue.
Temporary local subject terms: America: American War -- Mountainous headdresses -- Animals -- Flags: Two women holding darts of lightning -- Military -- Costume.

Abstract:

"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue.
"A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

America's head dress
America's headdress

Topics:

Apes.
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775.
Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780.
Flags.
Geese.
Hairstyles--England--1770-1780.
Muffs.
Soldiers--British.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 56 right

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1776.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1776.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

13900828

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37121b

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5330

OID:

16737603

PID:

digcoll:4711176