Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., First of two plates on leaf 44., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Gambling, Playing cards, Tables, Skeletons, Shovels, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Major G****n and lady landing at Southampton in Cripples Walk
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Numbered '4' in upper right of plate., Fourth plate in the series: Nature display'd both serious and comic in 12 designs dedicated to S. Foot Esqr. Series title appears only on the first plate., Temporary local subject terms: Medical: crutches -- Diseases: gout -- Medical: hartshorn (smelling salts) -- Quacks -- Animals: dog -- Spas: Southampton -- Southampton: "Cripples Walk" -- Literature: paraphrase of Alexander Pope's Rape of the lock, canto ii,1.7., Two lines of paraphrase from Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope added in unknown contemporary hand to the right of the large female figure in the image., and Watermark.
Title from item., Date supplied by cataloger based on subject., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint. Cf. Undated impression in the Library of Congress., Above title motto of Hanover arms: Nec aspera terrent., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military: Guards -- Military uniforms: Guards' bearskin -- Weapons: bayoneted musket -- Street scenes -- Buildings: St. James's Palace -- Mythology: allusion to Mars., Watermark: Strasburg lily., and Window mounted to 35 x 26 cm.
"Four persons gazing at the prints displayed in a print-shop closely resembling though not identical with that in British Museum Satire no. 3758 (1774) which is evidently by the same artist. A man and woman (left) in macaroni dress stand together, he holds her left hand smiling, and pointing at one of the prints with his right hand. She turns aside smiling behind her fan. Two men (right) stand in conversation; one (right) points out to the other, who is in back view, both hands held up in astonishment, one of the prints in the top row, apparently that of Wesley. Other prints print of John Bunyan and George Whitefield. A dog befouls the foot of the man facing the shop-window."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Four lines of verse below title, in two colums: While macaroni and his mistress here, At other characters in picture, sneer, To the vain couple is but little known, How much deserving ridicule their own.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles, at No. 13 in Cornhill
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
City & town life, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Dogs, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets., Second of two plates on leaf 40., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 40. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A short, stout elder man in glasses stands in front of an armchair as he greets a tall, younger man with elongated chin and bag wig who bows to him. The visitor's greyhound is looking curiously at the host's little pug
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Furniture: Armchair with claw feet -- Room screen -- Table -- Pictures amplifying subject: Portrait of an obese man -- Pets., Mounted to 28 x 34 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. according to act, July 1, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
A short stout young man with a wooden leg and bag wig, stands on his tiptoe, embracing with his hands the bosom of a tall young maid with a mop in her hand and pattens on her shoes
Alternative Title:
Timbertoe on tiptoe
Description:
Title from item., Series numbers in upper left and right corner of plate, respectively: V.2 7., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Domestic service: maidservant -- Containers: wooden pail -- Dress: pattens -- Wooden legs -- Literature: allusion to play The Handsome Maid or Piety in Pattens., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub accord. to act, March 12, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[20 December 1773]
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.12.20.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publisher inferred to be J. Bretherton based on his role as printmaker and the street address given in imprint statement., Companion print to: Snip francois., Temporary local subject terms: Trades: Tailors -- Tailors' portfolios., 1 print on laid paper : etching with drypoint ; sheet 21.9 x 14.9 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th Decr. 1773 [by J. Bretherton], New Bond Street