Billy Button, Master of the Ceremonies to an eighteen penny rout & assembly [graphic].

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Title: Billy Button, Master of the Ceremonies to an eighteen penny rout & assembly [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly accorg. to act, Decr. 1st, 1771, (39 Strand)
Abstract: "A man standing (whole length) in profile to right. He appears to be bowing, his right hand is held out, his left fingers touch his breast. His profile is grotesque, with a bulbous nose and double chin. His hair is in a club. He wears a laced coat and waistcoat, frilled shirt-sleeves, low buckled shoes, and a sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "3" in upper right corner.
For an earlier state, see no. 4988 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Masters of the ceremonies -- Routs: Eighteen penny -- Club wig -- Literature: Reference to Samuel Foote's (1720-1777) play, The maid of Bath -- Actors in performance: Thomas Weston as Billy Button.
Third of three plates on leaf 65.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 16.2 x 11 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Edition: [State with volume number].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 65. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Weston, Thomas, 1737-1776
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Actors
Bowing
Wigs
Daggers & swords
Subjects: Weston, Thomas, 1737-1776 > Caricatures and cartoons
Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777
Dandies > British
Actors
Bowing
Wigs
Daggers & swords
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

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