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A Long Headed Minuet No. 12.

A Long Headed Minuet No. 12.

Woodward del. Cruikshank sp.
Pub. by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside Feb.ry 13 1807.
Hand-coloured etching. Plate: 245 x 345mm (9¾ x 13¾"). Diagonal crease in top left corner.
A comic scene showing a room full of people with large heads, in the foreground a couple dance a minuet. 'Long Heads' developed from Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to Gulliver, Sythian women used to bind their children's heads so they would develop up rather than out, but eventually this became an inherited characteristic. The satire here is of people behaving artificially, following social convention rather than nature, like sheep.
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