"Satire on ageing macaronis; an elderly man wearing an elaborate wig stands whole-length to front in a fashionable interior, his right hand to his chin, his left in his breeches pocket."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
How do you like me
Description:
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; publication date erased from end of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered '260' in lower left corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Bag wig -- Furniture: oval mirror in gold frame -- Furniture: upholstered chair -- Furnishings: window curtain.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Peticoat recommendation the best and Petticoat recommendation the best
Description:
Title from item., Temporary local subject terms: Interior: Carlisle House? -- Architectural detail: portal -- Interior decoration: bust -- Bag wig -- Macaronies -- Pets: cockatoo -- Allusion to the Coterie Club -- Allusion to Pantheon -- Allusion to Polly or Kitty Kennedy., and Matted to 56 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title etched below image., Earlier state without plate number and with publication date. Cf. No. 5092 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: tea-cups and saucers -- Furniture: chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: two monkeys drinking tea at a table.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Lawyers, and Wigs
An elaborately dressed old gentleman with a huge club wig and a bouquet of flowers and vegetables in the buttonhole of his coat, leans with his left hand on a table while addressing an elegant tall young woman seated in the chair on the right, her toupée wig decorated with ribbons and scarf, and a large nosegay stuck in the neck of her pelisse
Alternative Title:
Two maccaroni's and Two macaronies
Description:
Title from item. and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title from item., Cf. No. 4582 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: artist's studio -- Macaronies -- Female dress, 1772 -- Female dress: mob cap -- Toupée wig -- Club wig -- Furnishings: round mirror in gold frame -- Portrait paintings -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes -- Artist's implements: easel.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Page 289. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire; an ugly old woman dressed in richly decorated black clothes, leering at a macaroni wearing a wig with an enormous looped queue, one hand on his shoulder while he lays one hand on his breast and smiles admiringly at her; a black page standing behind the old woman and a couple smiling at them as they pass by, in the background to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies
Description:
Title from later state., Additional title from note below image, written in pencil and brown ink: Pshaw, theres no trusting you macaronies., Printmaker from statement of responsibility on later state: Wilson delt. & fecit., Early state, with scratched-letter publication statement only. For a later state with the title "A real-scene on the parade at Bath" and other lettering in lower margin, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.363., Publisher from imprint on later state: London, Publish'd March 21st, 1772, by J. Parker, No. 82, Cornhill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Female costume, 1772 -- Male headdresses., Folded to 30.6 x 24.5 cm; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 289 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Henry Parker
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England),
Subject (Topic):
Blacks, Dandies, British, Wigs, Older people, Courtship, Couples, and Servants