Long corks, or, the bottle companions [graphic]Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker[11 April 1777]engTwo elderly ladies are seated facing each other, the one on the left extremely fat and the one on the right very thin. Both display the extravagantly tall hairstyles of the day, topped by ostrich plumes. They are each seated on a large cork which issues from a bottle beneath them, an allusion to the protruding "cork rumps" which support their skirtsTitle from item.Signed in plate MD., i.e. Matthias Darly.MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.Early state, without numbering, of no. 5439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.