Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
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 "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title engraved below image., Description based on imperfect copy; sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides., First published as no. 22 in a series by M. Darly, Decr. 1, 1773. Original title: Macaronies drawn after the life. Cf. No. 4645 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: hanging bookshelf -- Furniture: table -- Pictures amplifying subject: horse racing -- Books: allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Books: allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: country church -- Tools: spade.
Publisher:
Publish'd by Sayer & Bennett
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
A barge sailing along a hilly shore has as the figure-head at the high stern a bearded, Semitic face with a high pompadour of hair. Above it waves a huge ensign. Beneath the flag a man plays on the fiddle. The crew of eight, in shirts with black ties and tricorne hats, rows along. Their hair is arranged in macaroni clubs or queues. One of them is drowsing, another falls backwards. Behind them, a macaroni with a tricorne hat in his hand sits astride the bow
Description:
Sheet trimmed within plate mark., "Price 6"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publd. accordg. to the act by J. Lockington, Shug Lane
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Musicians, Musical instruments, and Sailors
Two macaronies in large club wigs fight with swords and canes a flock of geese they happened upon. One of the geese runs away with its wing cut off while a dog running behind them receives a sword thrust in its leg
Alternative Title:
Macaroni heroes
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: So full of courage & so swift, the gallant macky's lay about ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 22 x 33 cm.
One of a collection of four similar images; the other three images are titled: Mr. Kean as Othello; Miss Hargraves as Amy; Miss Bartolozzi as the page in The marriage of Figaro. Formerly part of an album (now lost), each on the same size sheet but different colors and attributed to different artists. Annotations in red ink are by the same hand. Presumably these collages, made using the same farbics, were made by friends and exchanged as gifts. In this collage a full-length image of a woman, identified as Miss Vestris: her head and neck, arms, and boots have been cut from an unidentifed print or prints while her costume and hat and their trimming are cut from satin cloth with additional decorated paper trimming. On the verso written in red ink, two poems: "The Snow Drop by Henry Neele" and "I Saw Thee Weep, Byron" transcribed in two columns
Alternative Title:
Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni
Description:
Title written at bottom of sheet., Signed with initials in lower right corner; artist "H.A.S" is unidentified., Date of production from recipient's note on the verso of one of the collages and other internal evidence., and The poem on verso "The Snow Drop" in the Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, volume 16, page 502 and signed "W. B." Also published in May 1828 in the The Ariel: A literary and cricial gazette (Philadelphia), vol. 2. no.1.
Subject (Name):
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, 1797-1856,, Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791., and Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 1749-1838.
Subject (Topic):
Characters, Actresses, British, and Operas & operettas
Title from item., Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., and Possibly reversed version of this print, no. 6107 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worsley, Richard, Sir, 1751-1805. and Bisset, Maurice George, 1757-1821.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Publication date from unverified data from local card catalog record., Text following imprint: where political and other caricatures are daily pub., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text below title: Suppose any one could see us now., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A series in four rows in three segments (some with a second figure in distance) of images of soldiers demonstrating the military drills with rifle and bayonets, beginning with "Dress to the right. 1st poise firelock, 2nd cock firelock ... 11th ram down cartridge."
Description:
Title from text above image., Text for imprint missing from this impression supplied from unverified card catalog., Imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark, resulting in partial loss of imprint. Text supplied from another impression., and Previously laid in pocket of The soldier's companion. See Lewis Walpole Library: 63 797 So43.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by C. Cooke, No. 17 Paternoster Row
Subject (Topic):
Bayonets, Military training, Rifles, Soldiers, and British
A young woman sits under a tree, holding a small dog on a leash. An instrument (a recorder?) is partially hidden by her arm and hungs by a cord across her shoulder. In the distance is a horse and chaise
Description:
Title from item., Number '204' in lower left corner of plate., and Temporary local subject terms: Ladies' costume.
Publisher:
Published 23rd July, 1787, by Robert Sayer, 53 Fleet Street