A macaroni dressing room [graphic]

Description

Title: A macaroni dressing room [graphic]
Creator: W., I., active 1772, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [26 June 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. according to act June 26th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Abstract: A group of macaronis in a dressing room, one having his hair dressed by a flamboyant hairdresser and his young black assistant, another practising fencing, a third plays with his pet cockatoo, another looks down at a servant boy who is spilling a tray of cups. The pictures on the wall allude to the action ("Morning Devotion") and themes (Rotten Row Macaroni) in the print; also an ornate mirror is centered in the room on the wall. On the floor is a sheet with the Newmarket horse races listed. The man having his hair tended wears beauty patches on his cheek
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
For another version of this design in reverse, see no. 4781 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
On leaf 18.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 18. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Blacks
Boudoirs
Cockatoos
Dandies
Hairdressing
Mirrors
Servants
Vanity
Subjects: Blacks
Boudoirs
Cockatoos
Dandies
Hairdressing
Mirrors
Servants
Vanity
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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