Leaf 35. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Quizzing glasses., Second of two plates on leaf 35., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Novr. 16, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Obesity, Critics, and Hand lenses
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at left., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Earlier state, without border around design and without lines indicating the floor in the image. Cf. No. 4699 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Quizzing glasses -- Critics, and Watermark: countermark W.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Novr. 16, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Leaf 35. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered '22' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Quizzing glasses., Watermark., and Ms. note in contemporary hand below title: Dr. Richard Farmer - critic & theologian.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Novr. 16, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Obesity, Critics, and Hand lenses
"An elderly man, dressed in the macaroni manner with an enormous club of hair, walks, supported by a stick held in his left hand. His r. hand is firmly grasped by a young woman who points with her other (l.) hand in the direction to which she is leading him. She is tall and fashionably dressed and is evidently a courtesan."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Old macaroni misled
Description:
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top and sides., Plate numbered '10' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Canes -- Female dress, 1772., and Watermark: countermark IV.
Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description:
Title etched above imprint and below text., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Five lines of text below image and above title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him., Publisher's statement below image: Prints & drawings lent on the plan of a circulating library, folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Dwarfs, Military uniforms, British, and Swords
Shown full-length, a short man in ill-fitting uniform stands before a cannon. He leans on one sword and has another very large one swung behind his back
Description:
Title etched above imprint at the end of five lines of text., Printmaker from another state in Lewis Walpole collection. This state also lacks the publisher's statement following printmaker's statement. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library 796.01.01.02.2., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on left side and top., Five lines of text below image and preceding title: Some school-boys who were playing at soldiers found one of their number so ill made and so much under size that he would have disfigured the whole body if put into the ranks. What shall we do with him asked one. Do with him says another? Why, make an officer of him., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and With printseller's stamp: S.W. Fores.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany 1st, 1796, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Topic):
Cannons, Dwarfs, Military uniforms, British, and Swords