Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Refined taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett)., Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner., Second of two plates on leaf 44., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, and Staffs (Sticks)
Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A civilian (right) standing in profile to the left gazes through a glass at a tall and bulky soldier in uniform (left) who stands in back view, turning his head in profile to the right towards the civilian. The civilian is fashionably dressed wearing a bag-wig and sword, a cane under his arm. The soldier wears jack-boots and holds a long sword under his arm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Refined taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from description of reissue published by R. Sayer; see no. 5173 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Four lines of verse in two columns below title: Eternal Infamy, that Wretch Confound, Who Planted first this Vice on English Ground, A Crime that spite of Sense & Nature reigns, And Poisons Genial Love & Manhood stains. Vide Rod. Random (i.e., Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett)., and Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "6" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, and Staffs (Sticks)
"Two timorous duellists face each other at close quarters in a saw-pit, trembling and dropping their weapons, namely pistol and blunderbuss; each has a heap of weapons at his feet: sabres, rapier, pistol, more blunderbusses. The hair of both rises on their heads. One (left) is in uniform, the other (right), who is smaller, wears fashionable civilian dress with tasselled Hessian boots. A scroll extends above their heads inscribed: 'Did you mean to Offend me? indeed Sir not I.--indeed Sir I'm very glad on't!!!' A spectator (right) looks over the edge of the pit, holding a bowl from which he blows soap bubbles, which float over the head of the civilian. The bubble in the pipe is inscribed 'Puff', suggesting a publicity campaign."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Direful courage of Dolla Lolla
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark: Portal & Bridges 1802.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1810 by S.W. Fores, Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dueling, Fear, Guns, Military uniforms, British, and Pipes (Smoking)
"General Gunning stands in profile to the right before the door of his house, a bludgeon in his hand, driving before him his wife and daughter both scantily clad, but the latter with feathers in her hair. On the left is a military officer (Bowen) sheathing a sword in a broken sheath; Mrs. Bowen stands behind him. From General Gunning's pocket protrude papers: 'aff. by Mr B' and 'Am by Mr B.' He says "Now I shall save a 1000 a year in Housekeeping & keep as many - [whores] as I like." Miss Gunning says "Oh thus to be persecuted & rob'd of - all for Lorn." Mrs. Gunning says "Oh! my Darling my Angel fear not the machinations of these Combind plotters while you have a Mothers arms to support you". She points towards a woman's face at a window (? or in a picture) over which is etched: 'Here my Inosent shall you find a parants Care to soothe your troubles & every honest means pursued to discover those base dark assas[sins]'. Bowen says "Oh how they did run we have done the Business". His wife says "Aye Aye Clear off did not I do my part well.""--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Specimen of martial prowess
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum online catalogue., Publisher's annoucement following imprint: ... whare [sic] may be seen the compleatist [sic] collection of caricature prints & drawings in the Kingdom. Admite. 1 s & &., Temporary local subject terms: General's uniform -- Captain's uniform -- Bludgeons -- Weapons -- Expulsion -- Allusion to the Gunning scandal -- Capt. Bowen -- Mrs. Bowen., and Watermark: J Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. March 27, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly ...
Subject (Name):
Gunning, John, -1797, Gunning, Miss 1769-1823 (Elizabeth),, and Gunning, Mrs. 1740?-1800 (Susannah),
Two soliders shown full-length, one facing forward and the other in profile looking left
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pub. April 13, 1831, for W. Heath at 56 Quadrant Regent Street
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Military uniforms, British, Bayonets, and Rifles
Leaf 85. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in military dress walking or running in profile to the right. His right hand holds a cane, his left the hilt of a sabre. His queue, twisted like a rope, is looped up with narrow ribbon. He wears a hat with a feather, a coat with facings and epaulettes, a ruffled shirt, and half-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
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 "19" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 85., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.2 x 12.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Septr. 21, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Dandies, Daggers & swords, Staffs (Sticks), Hats, and Feathers
Leaf 85. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in military dress walking or running in profile to the right. His right hand holds a cane, his left the hilt of a sabre. His queue, twisted like a rope, is looped up with narrow ribbon. He wears a hat with a feather, a coat with facings and epaulettes, a ruffled shirt, and half-boots."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. IV: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, No. 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "19" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Septr. 21, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Dandies, Daggers & swords, Staffs (Sticks), Hats, and Feathers
Two military officers on horseback beside a fence, one tall and thin with a walking stick under his arm, following another who is short and corpulent who holds his sword by the blade
Alternative Title:
City defenders
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub by M Darly Sept 1, 1780 (39) Strand
Subject (Topic):
Military officers, British, Military uniforms, Horseback riding, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs
"Plate to the 'Scourge', iv, before p. 349. An illustration to 'Elections in the Isle of Borneo', pp. 349-55, relating a dream in which the Prince chooses his Ministers and Household officers according to their proficiency in adultery. A sequel to British Museum Satires No. 11899. The Regent is enthroned under a canopy in the centre of a long platform backed by the pillars of Carlton House. Below is the cobbled street, with passers-by and spectators whose heads are just below the platform, so that the figures are arranged in two tiers. The Regent's throne is on a triple dais; he puts one arm round the waist of Lady Hertford who sits on his knee, holding at arms' length a brimming goblet. She puts her right arm round his neck, and also supports herself by placing a finger on the branching antlers of her husband, who stands in his chamberlain's robes, and holding his wand of office, beside the dais, at which he points with a complacent grin. He says: "My gracious Master is personelly acquainted with my merits, they live in his bosom, & he will reward me, according to my Deserts." Lady Hertford wears a spiky crown, and her vast spherical breasts are divided by a jewel in the form of the Prince's feathers with his motto 'Ich Dien.' The drapery over the throne is centred by the crowned skull of a stag, with wide antlers; in its nostrils is a ring from which a birch-rod hangs above the Prince's head. A grinning demon, standing on the antlers, straddles across the crown, holding up the drapery. On the left of the throne the Duke of York, in uniform with cavalry boots, his hand on his sword, stands swaggeringly. A woman clutches his arm and whispers in his ear; beside them is a basket containing three infants and inscribed 'Mother Careys Chickin' [see British Museum Satires No. 11050]. He says: "I was turned out of the Office I now solicit because I was too fond of a married Woman [Mrs. Clarke, see British Museum Satires No. 11216, &c.] & could not live without commiting Adultery I claim therefore to be once more elevated to the Office of Commander in Cheif." Behind Lord Hertford (and a pendant to Mrs. Carey) stands an elderly posturing peer, wearing a star, his hands deprecatingly extended. He says: "As for business I never had a Headfor't but I have laid the Country under a Massy load of Obligations in other respects Adultery is my Motto so give me ******ship of the H-." Next (right) is a group of three: the Duke of Cumberland in outlandish Death's Head Hussar uniform holding a sabre with a notched blade and seemingly dripping blood, though not so coloured. He stands between two young women; one, holding his arm, brandishes a razor over her head, the other holds a paper called 'Nugent'. The Duke says: "Considering my Exploits you cannot do less than make me a Field Marshal." On the extreme right is the Duke of Clarence in admiral's uniform with trousers, pointing to a broken chamber-pot ('Jordan') decorated with a crown and containing seven children, two in uniform. Mrs. Jordan takes him affectionately by the arm. He points downwards, saying, "I have lived in Adultery with an actress 25 years & have a pretty Number of illegetimate Children. I hope you will make me an Admiral of the Fleets." On the extreme left McMahon, dwarfish and ugly, stoops over the edge of the platform, pouring coins from a bag marked 'P P' [reversed letters], for Privy Purse (or Pimp), into the apron of a hideous bawd who grins up at him. He says: "Let her be forty at least, plump & Sprightly." Next stands Lord Yarmouth, wearing a star, his hands in his pockets, scowling at a young woman who puts her hands on his shoulders; he says: "Confound my Wishers if Venus alias Fanny Anny [Fagniani] may not go to Juno----I'm Vice all over. Let me con tinue so." Next is a tall man wearing a long driving-coat with a star and a small rakish top-hat (? Lord Melbourne); one leg terminates in a cloven hoof. He stands between two disreputable women of the lowest St. Giles type, ragged and hideous, an arm across the shoulders of each; both offer him drink, one takes him by the chin. A third and younger woman sits on the ground at his feet, drinking from a bottle. He says: "As for me my Name is sufficient, I am known as the Paragon of Debauchery and I only claim to be the-s [Regent's] Confidential Friend." On the ground (left to right) are the bawd receiving money from McMahon, a ragged dustman with the curved shin-bones then known as 'cheese-cutters', a result of rickets; George Hanger, with his bludgeon under his arm (cf. British Museum Satires No. 8889, &c.), saying, "Hang her She's quite Drunk"; Augustus Barry, grotesquely thin and very rakish, with long coat, standing with widely splayed-out feet. These three stare up at the throne, Barry looking through an eye-glass. A ragged, sub-human creature picks Barry's pocket, taking a paper: 'A Sermon to be Preached at Cripple gate by Revd Honble A Newgate'. A blind beggar (? a sailor) walks with a stick, and a dog on a string, holding out his tattered hat. A Quaker-like figure stares up at the platform where the legs of the seated prostitute hang over its edge, as does a beggar boy with badly twisted legs. Next, a fashionably dressed man and woman shake hands, bending to stare into each other's face. He takes her left hand. His dress resembles that of the dandy of a few years later: shock of hair, exaggerated neck-cloth, hussar-pattern trousers, and long tail-coat. The centre figure in this lower row is John Bull looking up angrily over his shoulder at the prostitute, and pushing away to the right three young girls; he says to them: "Get away get away, if you go near the Platform you'll be ruined." His bull-dog looks pugnaciously up at the platform. A tall emaciated cavalry soldier speaks to a woman in a poke-bonnet, while a little ragged boy clasps the long horse-tail which hangs from his helmet. On the extreme right is Sheridan in (ragged) Harlequin's dress (cf. British Museum Satires No. 9916), moribund or drunk, supported between two top-booted bailiffs; one holds a writ and says "Poor fellow his Magic wand is broken." On the ground lies his wooden sword in two pieces, one inscribed 'M', the other 'P'; at his feet is a paper: 'Princely Promises'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Election in the island of Borneo
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: The Scourge, or, Monthly expositor of imposture and folly. London: W. Jones, v. 4 (October 1812), page 349., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., and Mounted opposite page 318 (leaf numbered '143' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
Published November 1st, 1812, by W.N. Jones, No. 5 Newgate Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Hertford, Francis Ingram Seymour, Marquis of, 1743-1822, Hertford, Isabella Anne Ingram-Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of, 1760-1834, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, 1771-1851, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Jordan, Dorothy, 1761-1816, McMahon, John, approximately 1754-1817, Hertford, Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Marquess of, 1777-1842, Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Viscount, 1745-1828, Hanger, George, 1751?-1824, Barry, Augustus, Honble., 1773-1818, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, and Carlton House (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Harlequin (Fictitious character), John Bull (Symbolic character), Dustmen, Thrones, Canopies, Columns, Adultery, Antlers, Cobblestone streets, Demons, Military uniforms, Baskets, Infants, Daggers & swords, Poor persons, Pickpockets, Beggars, Staffs (Sticks), Prostitutes, Soldiers, and British