"Design in an oval. A man seated at a table (half length to left) on which he leans his elbows, his face puckered with distress."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Brought to trouble and woe by cards, dice, and E.O.
Description:
Title from caption below image., After Robert Dighton. See British Museum catalogue, Sheet trimmed with loss of number "363"., No. 7 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
"A pugilistic encounter between the Duke of York (left) and Lt.-Col. Charles Lennox (right), both stripped to the waist. The Duke stands with both fists clenched, saying, "Come on my Lad! don't fall without a Blow! I'll tickle your Mazzard, if you dare to stand up like a Man!" Lennox, on one knee, clutches the arm of his second, the Duke of Richmond, saying, "O save me Nunkle! - O Lord! - O Lord! - O Lord! Your H--h--ss is above my Match! - O Lord - I'm not fit to fight any body above your Footman". Richmond puts out a hand to restrain his nephew, saying with an expression of alarm, "For heavens sake, forbear! we are nothing but a brood of Bastards! Bastards begot - Bastards instructed - Bastards in Mind - Bastards in Valour - in every thing illegitimate - we are neither of Blood, or of Honor, to cope with your Hi-h--ss!!" The Prince of Wales, on the extreme left, is his brother's second; he says, with a contemptuous expression, "Fredrick! cant you tip his bottle holder a sly plump in the Bread-basket?" Behind him is a Union flag; behind Richmond are fortifications flying a French flag, symbolizing his French descent and title ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Battle of the bloods, pure & contaminated and Battle of the bloods, pure and contaminated
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse below image, following title: Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur, run back & bark because he was with-held, who being suffer'd in the bears fell paw, hath clap'd his tail between his legs & cry'd., "Price 1 sh.", Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Duels: Duke of York and Lt.-Col. Lennox, May 26, 1789 -- Duke of Richmond's fortifications -- Allusion to Charles II -- Flags -- Union Jack -- French flag -- Boxing., and Watermark: countermark S. Lay.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 23d, 1789, by J. Aitken, Castle Street, Leicester Fields
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806, and Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1764-1819
Leaf 83. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) and woman (left) are shown full length and appear to be quarrelling. The young woman runs left holding up in her right hand a glass whose contents are being spilled. In her left hand she holds a sword hilt downwards. She wears a flat ribbon-trimmed hat, low ribbon-trimmed bodice. The man (right) dressed as a macaroni holds a cane above his head in his right hand; his left hand is on the hilt of his sword. The mouths of both are open as if shouting."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Buck and doe macaronies
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 5029 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., First of three plates on leaf 83., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 12.5 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Septr. 7, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[7 September 1772]
Call Number:
772.09.07.01.1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) and woman (left) are shown full length and appear to be quarrelling. The young woman runs left holding up in her right hand a glass whose contents are being spilled. In her left hand she holds a sword hilt downwards. She wears a flat ribbon-trimmed hat, low ribbon-trimmed bodice. The man (right) dressed as a macaroni holds a cane above his head in his right hand; his left hand is on the hilt of his sword. The mouths of both are open as if shouting."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Buck and doe macaronies
Description:
Title from caption below image., M. Darly in imprint either Mary Darly as publisher or Matthias Darly as publisher or printmaker? See British Museum online catalogue., Plate numbered '13' in upper right corner., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Swords -- Canes -- Glass: wine glass.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Septr. 7, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, Quarreling, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 83. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) and woman (left) are shown full length and appear to be quarrelling. The young woman runs left holding up in her right hand a glass whose contents are being spilled. In her left hand she holds a sword hilt downwards. She wears a flat ribbon-trimmed hat, low ribbon-trimmed bodice. The man (right) dressed as a macaroni holds a cane above his head in his right hand; his left hand is on the hilt of his sword. The mouths of both are open as if shouting."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Buck and doe macaronies
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "13" in upper right corner., and For an earlier state, see no. 5029 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Septr. 7, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A young couple, fashionably dressed, embrace, seated in a summer-house on the bank of a stream. Beside the summer-house is a notice-board inscribed 'Man Traps'. Across the water is an ugly elderly man who leans forward, gaping with agonized intentness at the pair. There is a landscape background, the winding stream receding in perspective under trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Rural sports. Buck hunting
Description:
Title etched below image., Possibily a later state; a previous imprint statement might have been removed from plate., Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Series title precedes print title below image., Plate numbered "73" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2., and Leaf 19 in volume 2.
"View of Buckingham House from outside the gates on to the park, without the fountain, a few elegantly dressed figures strolling around the yard, other figures outside gates in the park; an inscription on the building is lettered 'Sic Siti Laetantur Lares'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text etched within banner at top of image., Plate from: Stow, J. A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, and the borough of Southwark. London, Printed for W. Innys and J. Richardson [etc.], 1754-55., and Plate numbered "22" in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published according to act of Parliament, 1754, for Stowe's Survey
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. and Buckingham Palace (London, England),
A young man with a large nosegay in his lapel, holding a tasselled walking stick in his left hand and facing right wears the oversized shoe buckles and enormous buttons of the day, as well as a round hat with the brim held up on the sides by bands looped around a large button on the top
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Title varies slightly from that given in British Museum catalogue: "I'm the thing..."., and Numbered in plate at top: 23, V.2.