Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].

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Title: Phaaetona, or, Modern female taste [graphic].
Alternative Title: Phaetona, or, Modern female taste
Modern female taste
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: Nov. 6, 1776.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
On leaf 10.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 24.1 x 34.1 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Early works to 1800
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Engravings England London 1776
Material: etching and engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic): Carriages and carts
Women
Social life and customs
Social conditions
Horses
Clothing & dress
Hats
Hairstyles
Carriages & coaches
Coach drivers
Subjects: Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824
Carriages and carts > England > Early works to 1800
Women > England > Social life and customs > 18th century
Women > England > Social conditions > 18th century
Horses
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Hats
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Carriages & coaches > England > 18th century
Coach drivers > England > 18th century
England > 1776
England > London > 1776

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