A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772.

  • Dawe, Philip.
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Sep.r 3 1772
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35493i
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A woman wearing a fine dress with pearls around her neck, a very elaborate hair style and beauty spots, checks her appearance in a mirror before going out to the new fashionable resort of the Pantheon in London. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 1772. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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On the left the butcher's apprentice (he has a butcher's steel attached to his belt) laughs at the woman's transformation from a shopkeeper to a fashionable lady. The Pantheon, a grand domed building in Oxford Street, London, had opened on 27 January 1772

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[London] : Publish'd as the Act directs ... by P. Dawe, Sep.r 3 1772.

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1 print : mezzotint ; image 33.1 x 25.4 cm

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The butchers wife dressing for the Pantheon.

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[State without "P. Dawe f.t" at left but with "P. Dawe" in imprint instead of "W. Humphrey"].

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Wellcome Collection 35493i

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