Miss shuttle-cock [graphic]

Description

Title: Miss shuttle-cock [graphic]
Alternative Title: Miss shuttlecock
Contributor: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, artist.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: Decr. 6. 1776.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly
Abstract: Two men playing shuttlecock, an obese clergyman on the left and a gentleman in pigtail queue on right. Their airborne "shuttlecock" is a woman with the huge feathered coiffure of the day and the fashionable "cork rump" or bustle visible beneath her skirts
Description: Title from item.
R.S. monogram in image may refer to Richard Sneer (i.e., R. B. Sheridan) or to the identity of the print's subject.
Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Verse beneath title: Ladie likes [sic] shuttle-cocks are now array'd, the tail is cork'd & feather'd is the head.
Verso with contemporary ms. inscription.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 29 x 43 cm
Language: English

Genre: Early works to 1800
Engravings England London 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic): Badminton (Game)
Hairstyles
Badminton
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Badminton (Game) > Early works to 1800
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Badminton
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
England > London > 1776
England > 1776
18th century

Access: Public
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