Pub.d Jan.y 1st 1805 by S.W. Fores no 50 Piccadilly.
Aquatint and etching with hand colour. 305 x 225mm (12 x 8¾"), watermarked 1796. Creasing in margins, slight soiling.
Despite the bottles of 'Milk of Roses', 'Olimpian Dew' and 'Circassian Bloom', an elderly woman is so unimpressed by her own reflection that she breaks her dressing room mirror with her curling tongs.
BM Satires 11660.
[Ref: 56150]  £320.00