"Eight three-quarter length figures of women in ovals, arranged in two rows on a dark background. Each has put on a new wig, ranging from heavy ringlets in confused profusion to a shock of lank hair. Some are old and ugly, others passable. Their words are engraved beneath the oval; some are horrified, others complacent."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below images., Publisher's advertisement below title: Folio's of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Design divided into eight compartments, each individually captioned., and Watermark: A. Stace 1798.
Publisher:
Pub. June 12, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50, Piccadilly, corner of Sachville [sic] St
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
An enormously obese woman in an elaborate dress with hooped skirt, her large mass of hair frizzed in a beehive shape. In her gloved left hand she holds a fan
Description:
Title from item. and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Title etched below image., Earlier state without plate number and with publication date. Cf. No. 5092 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Dishes: tea-cups and saucers -- Furniture: chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: two monkeys drinking tea at a table.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Lawyers, and Wigs
Two men playing shuttlecock, an obese clergyman on the left and a gentleman in pigtail queue on right. Their airborne "shuttlecock" is a woman with the huge feathered coiffure of the day and the fashionable "cork rump" or bustle visible beneath her skirts
Alternative Title:
Miss shuttlecock
Description:
Title from item., R.S. monogram in image may refer to Richard Sneer (i.e., R. B. Sheridan) or to the identity of the print's subject., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Verse beneath title: Ladie likes [sic] shuttle-cocks are now array'd, the tail is cork'd & feather'd is the head., and Verso with contemporary ms. inscription.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Badminton (Game), Hairstyles, Badminton, and Clothing & dress
Opposite page 104. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left side., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Folded to 31.5 x 25.5 cm., and Bound in opposite page 104 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:
Pubd. March 18th, 1774, by H. Bryer, London
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, French, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Snuff
A young woman with a "big hair" sits on sofa playing a guitar, music book beside her. The sitting room is decorated with an oval mirron on the back wall, a ornate carpet on the floor, and a topiary in a pot beside the window, heavy curtains around the windows and behind her on the right
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '170' in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Sofas, Mirrors, Rugs, and Draperies
A young woman with a "big hair" sits on sofa playing a guitar, music book beside her. The sitting room is decorated with an oval mirron on the back wall, a ornate carpet on the floor, and a topiary in a pot beside the window, heavy curtains around the windows and behind her on the right
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '170' in lower right corner., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Sofas, Mirrors, Rugs, and Draperies
A fashionably dressed woman with elaborate coiffure decorated with ribbons and ostrich plumes, holds a whip in the left hand and reins in the right, as she rides on the back of a corpulent man with horns. He leans on his walking stick, the reins in his mouth, regarding the viewer with a doleful expression. Beneath the title, a quote from 1 Corinthians 7:4: "The husband hath not power over his own body - but the wife."
Alternative Title:
Scripture fulfilled
Description:
Title from item., Signed in lower left of image IM, i.e. John Hamilton Mortimer?, and Date conjectured by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Cuckolds, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:
Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 10., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers