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Print made by: Anonymous

Formerly attributed to: Hannah Humphrey (as publisher)
Title
Changez moi cette tête, tête d'ancien gout
Description
English: Satire on the changing fashions for women, with women in a shop buying new heads, backsides, legs etc. January 1784
Hand-coloured etching
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 211 millimetres
Width: 278 millimetres (cut)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1998,0712.46
Notes

This satire, which is not identifiable in De Vinck, is described in Grimm's 'Correspondence Littéraire' (ed. M.Tourneux), XIII p.324, being the entry for June 1783: 'On a fait une assez jolie caricature dont l'epigraphe est "Avis au public, têtes à changer". C'est un magasin où l'on voit une grande affluence d'hommes et de femmes de toute condition qui viennent se pourvoir, selon leur besoin, de nouvelles têtes, de nouveaux culs, de nouvelles hanches etc. L'idée de cette gravure a beaucoup réussi, et ce succès a donné lieu à de mauvais couplets qu'on attribue à M.Desprès, secrétaire de M.le baron de Besenval ...'. This is one of the very few comments in Grimm relating to caricatures.

The date of this print, January 1784, and the false London publication line of Hannah Humphrey (previously accepted at face value, see A. Griffiths, 'English Prints in 18th-century Paris', Print Quarterly, December 2005), can be explained by parallel documents found in the French archives on another French plate with the publication of Robert Sayer. J.B.Crépy published in 1779 a print titled 'Le nouveau jeu des modes françaises' in which he had reproduced on a single plate a series of fashion plates for which Esnauts and Rapilly had taken out a privilege the year before. To disguise his involvement he had published it with the false address of Robert Sayer in London. He lost the subsequent lawsuit because Esnauts and Rapilly were able to produce the draughtsman and engraver who had worked for Crépy (the documents were found and published by Geoffrey de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French XVIIIc marqueteur', Burlington Magazine, CVII 1965, p.241).
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