by a prosperous-looking individual to Dame Fortune, whose portrait
forms the signboard of his establishment, 'Peter Puff's Lucky Lottery
Office.' He prays the blindfold goddess to grant insurance to his
schemes, so that they may turn up prizes, and prevent his looking
blank when bowing at the altar of his divinity. 'And lastly, I pray
thee, with the indulgent aid of mighty superiferous Somnus, to cause
all old women and children to dream incessantly on the advantages
gained by venturing in the lottery; so shall the nocturnal visions of
old chairs and tables be converted into lucky numbers, and thy humble
petitioner benefited thereby.'
_March 18, 1801._ _The Union Head-dress._ Published by R.
Ackermann, 101 Strand.--A pair of busts, the fancy portraits of two
highly-caricatured individuals, whose faces wear a most dejected
expression, from whose respective foreheads branch a pair of
well-defined horns.--'This style of decoration represents "The Union
Head-dress," successively worn by many respectable citizens since the
days of Noah; for its simplicity and elegance it cannot be too much
admired. Respectfully dedicated to the fashion-mongers of 1801.' The
satire of this print, which appears somewhat coarse and uncalled-for,
is levelled at the fashion, which raged contemporaneously with its
publication, for embodying in the reigning mode any event which
happened to be stirring, no matter its frivolity or gravity, as the
case might be. The accomplishment of the union between England and
Ireland was seized by the milliners and fashion-mongers as the excuse
for a thousand extravagances in head-dresses, combining supposititious
emblems of the twin kingdoms with allusions to their happy conjunction.
_April 2, 1801._ No. 1, _Taste_. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp.
Published by R. Ackermann.
_April 2, 1801._ No. 2, _Fashion_. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp.
Published by R. Ackermann.
_April 2, 1801._ No. 3, _Elegance_. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp.
Published by R. Ackermann.
_April 2, 1801._ No. 4, _Fancy_. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp.
Published by R. Ackermann.
_May 1, 1801._ _Boot-Polishing._ G. M. Woodward del., Rowlandson sculp.
Published by R. Ackermann.
_July 12, 1801._ _Light Summer Hat and Fashionable Walking-stick._
Published by R. Ackermann.
_July 20, 1801._ _The Toper's Mistake._ G. M. Woodward inv. Published
by R. Ackermann.