I came across this interesting piece of satire from 1793 entitled The Bath Beauties. A tale as old as time, this print disparages women who wear cosmetics as vain and dishonest. The text at the bottom reads:
'Skill'd in all Arts that Grace the modish Fair
The Air of Confidence the high bred Stare
In every Trick Cosmetic stores supply
To give new luster to a languid Eye
For genuine Roses sport Parisian Bloom
Like Stucco plaister'd on a modern Room' 1793 [Notes by E. Hawkins]
One of the women depicted is, according to the British Museum, Honor Dutton, who "married Ralph Dutton, brother of Mrs. Coke; she is one of the three minstrels who are the subject of an 'impromptu' in the Bath Chronicle for 7 May 1793."
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