- Published / Created:
- Feb. 7, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.02.07.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Hats, Buttons (Fasteners), Staffs (Sticks), and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Buckles and buttons I am the thing. Dem-me. [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.01.06+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An enormously fat man holds a walking stick in his right hand as he stands before a lake or river. He wears a tricorne hat and gloves, together with the huge buttons and shoe buckles popular around 1777. Possibly a caricature of Sir Watkin Lewes
- Alternative Title:
- Sir William Waddle
- Description:
- Title from item., Trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint., Imprint from British Museum online catalogue., Numbered 30 in ms. on mount., and Inlaid to 45 x 33 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd April 1. 1777 by M Darly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821,
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sr William Waddle [graphic] / MD [monogram].
- Creator:
- Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [29 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-waisted dress of the period, with cork bustle and she wears her hair in high pyramidal style, topped by a hat with long feathers
- Alternative Title:
- Coup de bouton
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker's name from British Museum catalogue., Trimmed within plate mark; from worn plate with maker's name not visible., and In laid to 29 x 37 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Buttons (Fasteners), Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Steel buttons Coup de bouton / [graphic] =