England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . A BIRD OF PARADISE. stood to represent the celebrated Mary Anne Robin-son (the Perdita of theamorous history of thePrince of Wales, afterwardsGeorge IV.) A card be-side her, inscribed, AdmitMrs. M to the mask-ed ball, shews that she isin full dress; yet there isnothing extravagant in hercostume except the enor-mous coiffure and cap, whichlook as though they hadbeen stolen from some gi-gantic dame of the land of Brobdignag. Anothercap, equally preposterous, and of nearly the samedate, is repr
England under the house of Hanover : its history and condition during the reigns of the three Georges . A BIRD OF PARADISE. stood to represent the celebrated Mary Anne Robin-son (the Perdita of theamorous history of thePrince of Wales, afterwardsGeorge IV.) A card be-side her, inscribed, AdmitMrs. M to the mask-ed ball, shews that she isin full dress; yet there isnothing extravagant in hercostume except the enor-mous coiffure and cap, whichlook as though they hadbeen stolen from some gi-gantic dame of the land of Brobdignag. Anothercap, equally preposterous, and of nearly the samedate, is represented in our next cut, which is saidto be a portrait of Mrs. Cos-way, the artist. It wouldbe in vain to go on givingexamples of the differentforms of head-dresses whichnow came into vogue; forthe characteristic of fash-ion seems to have becomesuddenly variety instead ofuniformity, and it was al-most impossible to meet two ladies of high ton the outlines of whose costumeat all resembled each Now drest in a cap, now naked in loose in a mob, now close in a Joan;WiihoLit handkerchief now, and now buried in ruff;Now plain as a Quaker, now all of a puff; 364 THE CALASH. [1780.
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