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ANONYMOUS, BRITISH, 18TH CENTURY, ASCRIBED TO MISS HEEL, AFTER MR. PERWIG. Top and Tail

Top and Tail. Artist: Anonymous, British, 18th century; Ascribed to Miss Heel (British, 18th century); After Mr. Perwig (British, 18th century). Dimensions: plate: 12 11/16 x 7 13/16 in. (32.3 x 19.9 cm)
sheet: 14 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (35.7 x 21.8 cm). Date: 1777.
To modern eyes this design looks surreal but it is actually a fashionable, erotic variant of a seventeenth-century print type. Known as Nobody prints, these featured figures composed only of legs and heads, with nothing in between, and the resulting verbal-visual pun was aimed critically at specified target. Here, the elegant female "no-body" is composed of a huge, elaborately dressed, wig sitting atop a bare derriere, with her lower extremities clad in white silk stockings, red garters, and high heeled pumps. Like other fashion satires that mocked the latest trends, this example took aim at the enormous hairdos and wigs that women favored in Britain and France before the French Revolution. The title and partial nudity frankly acknowledges the sexual appeal of the fashion while simultaneously suggesting that those who followed it were literally brainless.

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ANONYMOUS, BRITISH, 18TH CENTURY • ASCRIBED TO MISS HEEL (18th century) • AFTER MR. PERWIG (18th century)

Titre:

Top and Tail

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Top and Tail. Artist: Anonymous, British, 18th century; Ascribed to Miss Heel (British, 18th century); After Mr. Perwig (British, 18th century). Dimensions: plate: 12 11/16 x 7 13/16 in. (32.3 x 19.9 cm) sheet: 14 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (35.7 x 21.8 cm). Date: 1777. To modern eyes this design looks surreal but it is actually a fashionable, erotic variant of a seventeenth-century print type. Known as Nobody prints, these featured figures composed only of legs and heads, with nothing in between, and the resulting verbal-visual pun was aimed critically at specified target. Here, the elegant female "no-body" is composed of a huge, elaborately dressed, wig sitting atop a bare derriere, with her lower extremities clad in white silk stockings, red garters, and high heeled pumps. Like other fashion satires that mocked the latest trends, this example took aim at the enormous hairdos and wigs that women favored in Britain and France before the French Revolution. The title and partial nudity frankly acknowledges the sexual appeal of the fashion while simultaneously suggesting that those who followed it were literally brainless.

Technique/matériel:

Hand-colored etching with stipple

Musée:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Crédit:

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Autorisations:

Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:

2635 x 4220 px | 31.8 MB

Taille d'impression:

22.3 x 35.7 cm | 8.8 x 14.1 in (300 dpi)

Mots clés:

AFTER MR. PERWIG • ANONYMOUS, BRITISH, 18TH CENTURY • ASCRIBED TO MISS HEEL • EUROPE (CONTINENT) • METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, USA • REINO UNIDO