This "droll figure" may have been a drawing, or a dressed doll,
or "baby," as such were called--a doll that displayed in careful
miniature the reigning modes of the English court. In the _New
England Weekly Journal_, of July 2, 1733, appears this notice:--
"To be seen at Mrs. Hannah Teatts Mantua Maker at the Head of Summer
Street Boston a Baby drest after the Newest Fashion of Mantuas and
Night Gowns & everything belonging to a dress. Latily arrived on
Capt. White from London, any Ladies that desire it may either come
or send, she will be ready to wait on 'em if they come to the House
it is Five Shilling, & if she waits on 'em it is Seven Shilling."
These models of fashion were employed until this century.