Caricatures, macaronies and characters and Caricatures, macaronies & characters
Description:
Title from text etched in center of design., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Title page for: Darly's comic-prints, v. 2 (1772)., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imperfect; "Vol. II" at top of plate has been erased and a linear pattern in ink written in its place.
"Satire: a group of four fashionably dressed men drinking milk supplied by a fat lady from her ass, with a man pointing and laughing behind her."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to a dialog: The city macaronies drinking asses milk, at the Lacteum, in St. George's Fields., Plate from: The Oxford magazine or, Universal museum ... London : Printed for the authors, v. 8, p. 177., and Window mounted to 29 x 23 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Donkeys, Milk, and Signs (Notices)
20 ALS and 2 autograph manuscripts by Chandos Leigh, first Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. Almost all of the letters were written during his travels on the Continent. Ten were written to his parents and sister in 1818-19 while he was on the grand tour. Letters from Switzerland and the Alps describe the scenery, particularly near Vevey and Lake Como, and refer to the writings of Rousseau, Byron, and Thomas Moore. Letters from Florence and Rome detail his responses to art and architecture, particularly the Venus de Medici, the sculpture of Canova and Thorvaldsen, and "the pride, pomp and circumstance" of Roman Catholic churches and ceremonies, which "must disgust the severe taste of the English traveller." Leigh also mentions Lord Byron, Lady Drury and Lord Beauchamp, the "set of regular English Dandies" and English ladies in Rome, the unattractiveness of Roman women, and his own purchase of a Salvator Rosa painting and Three letters to Sir Egerton Brydges, written during the Leigh family's stay in Switzerland in 1837, concern Leigh's poetry, his health, and a possible visit. His letters to his nephew Frederick Colvile contain news of his health and family; travel descriptions; and advice on Colvile's education. A March 1836 letter announces that the trustees of Rugby School have "unanimously decided in favour of Dr. Arnold;" a December 1837 letter comments that "Dr. Newman's book" (Lectures on Justification?) "contains much that is...to an ordinary man unintelligible." Other topics include the 1850 death of Sir Robert Peel and Leigh's own Liberal Party politics. The collection also contains autograph manuscripts of two poems by Leigh: "The First Days of Spring" and "Hymn for the Consecration of the Church on Westwood Heath."
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Chandos Leigh (1791-1850) was educated at Harrow School, where he met Lord Byron, and Christ Church, Oxford, following which he made the grand tour with Philip Shuttleworth. A distant cousin of Jane Austen's, and a generous literary patron to Leigh Hunt and others, Leigh privately published over two dozen collections of his own poems and essays. He was created Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh in May, 1839. Leigh traveled several times to the Continent for his heath, but died of apoplexy in Bonn in September of 1850; he was succeeded by his eldest son, William Henry Leigh. and Accompanied by a container list.
Subject (Geographic):
Europe., Alps, Florence (Italy), Italy, Rome (Italy), and Switzerland
Subject (Name):
Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824., Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837., Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822., Colvile, Frederick Leigh, 1819-1886., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850., Leigh, Chandos, 1791-1850, Leigh, James Henry, 1765-1823., Leigh, Julia, d. 1871., Leigh, Julia Twisleton, d. 1843., Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890., Peel, Robert, 1788-1850, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778, Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844., Catholic Church, and Rugby School.
Subject (Topic):
Books and reading, Death and burial, Influence, Customs and practices, Authors, English, Dandies, English literature, Grand tours (Education), Tourism, Travelers' writings, English, Description and travel, Social life and customs, and Religious life and customs
"Caricature on the trial of Queen Caroline, in sixteen small scenes, each with a character from the case and the words they have spoken."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on page 23 of: George Humphrey shop album.
Publisher:
Pub. Nov. 6, 1820, by John Marshall Junr., 24 Little St. Martins Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron, Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Baron, 1778-1868, Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852, and Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828
Subject (Topic):
Politicians, Military officers, Lawyers, Crowns, Bags, Gallows, Dandies, Justice, and Scales
Title from text in image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Title page from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Back fly leaf and back cover in same folder.
"Satire: a standing man in a fine dress with the head of a fox."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides., Two lines of verse below image: By little actions striving to be great, and proud to be, and to be thought a cheat. Jenyns., Plate from: The London museum of politics, miscellanies, and literature. London : printed for J. Miller, v. 3 (1771), p. 309., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male dress: French inflence, 1771 -- Literature: quotation from The modern fine gentleman by Soame Jenyns, 1704-1787., and Mounted to 30 x 38 cm.
Leaf 96. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man wearing a furred livery gown and a double-peaked fool's cap with bells. His head is turned slightly to the right. In his left hand is a watchman's rattle. He is Sir Watkin Lewes, a recently knighted alderman and city patriot, Sheriff of London 1772-3."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which this plate appears., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 96., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, City council members, Fools' caps, and Robes
Leaf 96. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man wearing a furred livery gown and a double-peaked fool's cap with bells. His head is turned slightly to the right. In his left hand is a watchman's rattle. He is Sir Watkin Lewes, a recently knighted alderman and city patriot, Sheriff of London 1772-3."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which this plate appears., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, City council members, Fools' caps, and Robes
"The standing figure of a man whose head is that of a double-headed animal, to the left an ass, to the right a bear. With his left hand (which also holds a whip) he leads an elephant whose head and trunk appear from the right. His right hand rests on the pinnacle of a Chinese pagoda ornamented with dragons. Suspended round his neck is the figure of a bear showing that he has the Swedish order of the Polar Star. He wears tartan trousers."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,...' which had just appeared, and opens 'Knight of the Polar Star'; it is both a political satire and an attack on Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening and on the Chinese pagoda which he had built at Kew for the Princess Dowager of Wales. Chambers is said to have been of Scottish descent, he was born in Sweden and was made Knight of the Polar Star by the king of Sweden."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist and printmaker names are unidentified pseudonyms., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Verse etched below image: From North to the South, I came forth right, by favor in duplici modo a Knight, in primis an Ass, secundus a Bear, the one is a Fact, the other is a Fair., and Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773.
Publisher:
Pub'd by MDarly March 7, 1773, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796 and Mason, William, 1725-1797.