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1. Long corks, or, the bottle companions [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.11.02.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two elderly ladies are seated facing each other, the one on the left extremely fat and the one on the right very thin. Both display the extravagantly tall hairstyles of the day, topped by ostrich plumes. They are each seated on a large cork which issues from a bottle beneath them, an allusion to the protruding "cork rumps" which support their skirts
- Alternative Title:
- Bottle companions
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed in plate MD., i.e. Matthias Darly., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Early state, without numbering, of no. 5439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly April 11 1777, 39 Strand near York Buildings
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Skirts, Bottles, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Long corks, or, the bottle companions [graphic]
2. The siege of cork [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 11, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.04.11.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a landscape with trees in the rear, a young woman with extremely tall coiffure augmented at the top by 3 ostrich plumes, runs towards the right, pursued by 9 winged flying bottles evidently aimed at the "cork rump" which fills out the back of her skirts
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by M Darly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Skirts, Bottles, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The siege of cork [graphic]