The old maids morning visit of the calash lady's

Darly, M

Hand-coloured etching from a composite album of 97 folios (147 prints) of comic illustrations under the title Darly's Comic Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies &c., published by Mary and Matthew Darly in London in 1777. A calash was a type of folding bonnet that took its name from a carriage with collapsible top. The title refers both to this type of bonnet as well as the word clash, perhaps alluding to these women as ‘frenemies’.