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George Dance the Younger RA (1741 - 1825)

Dress of the Ladies for the next year

Inscription: Drawn about the year / 1782 or 3

Museum number: P365

On display: Oratory (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

George Dance (along with his brother Nathanial Dance-Holland) was a keen caricaturist and although this exquisite drawing is not specifically a caricature it seems intended to lampoon the fashion for extreme hair styles in the early 1780s.


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