![Miss Juniper Fox. [London] : Pub. by MDarly 39 Strand, Mar. 2, 1777. Lewis Walpole Library , 777.03.02.01.](https://kittycalash.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/image11.jpg?w=529&h=674)
Miss Juniper Fox. [London] : Pub. by MDarly 39 Strand, Mar. 2, 1777.
Lewis Walpole Library , 777.03.02.01.
If you’re not wearing an inverted rooster held down by two foxes on your head, you’re not living 1777.
I have no idea what, beyond extreme hairstyles, this print is satirizing. It’s not the Wedding of Mrs Fox (as interesting a read as that is), and it’s really 100 years too late to be about Quakers.
The thing about those foxes is that at first glance on my phone, I thought they were the muscular lycanthropic squirrels of historic house wallpaper, but what two squirrels would be doing with a rooster– supporting him in illness? holding him hostage for an acorn ransom?– was beyond me.
At least as roosters, this headdress makes a bit more (morbid) sense, but it’s still a satirical engraving that makes less sense to us in 2014 than it did in 1777.
Kitty Calash 
I especially enjoy that bane of costumers–the actors own hairy wisps escaping under the edge of the wig. In this case, it makes an argument for yet another animal trapped under there!
Hilarious!! Thanks!
Nancy N
That is deliciously demented.
I couldn’t resist– and she gets better every time I look at her. Better=weirder.
I’m loving the barrels affixed to the side of her head as well.
Hmmmm….should I attach animals to my head for my next event?
The barrel curls are pretty nuts, aren’t they? I don’t think they’re a reference to gin, but perhaps they are. In any case, it’s a hairstyle that would most likely be unique at an event. Too obvious, perhaps, to wear with a riding habit.