Content: Caricature (cropped) primarily satirizing the hair styles of the day. Two couples performing a quadrille figure. The dancers are leaning back, their weight on their left foot; their right hand is extended toward their respective partner. The women are wearing towering coiffeures bedecked with flowers and bows.
Content: Four lines of verse by Milton: Sport, that wrinkled care derides/Fashion's showing off besides/Come and trip it as you go/On the light fantastick toe.