A character [graphic]

Description

Title: A character [graphic]
Creator: Gulston, Eliza B., 1749 or 1750-1779 or 1780, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: May 19th, 1772.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly at 39 Strand accor. to act
Abstract: "A man standing in profile to right, apparently caricatured for his old-fashioned dress and straight lank figure. His left hand is outstretched, his right holds a sword of which only the hilt is visible. He wears a wide flat hat and bag-wig. His long narrow coat hangs well below his knees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Ten lines of verse in two columns below title: An ugly face & staring hat, a carcase which has lost its fat ...
Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "7" in upper right corner.
For an earlier state, see no. 5009 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male costume: Macaroni hats.
First of three plates on leaf 74.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 12.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Edition: [State with volume number].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 74. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Amateur works
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Hats
Daggers & swords
Wigs
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Hats
Daggers & swords
Wigs
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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