Plate 64. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Five rows of wigs classified as "Parsonic", "Old Peerian or Aldermanic", "Lexonic", "Composite" and "Queerinthian"; at the bottom of the sheet a row of womens heads with, on the left, that of the newly-crowned Queen Charlotte; the wigs are annotated in the manner of illustrations to contemporary architectural treatises."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Five orders of periwigs
Description:
Title etched above image., Title from Paulson: The five orders of periwigs., State from Paulson. The second 'e' in advertisement added above the line; the 'k' in parsonic burnished out., Caption etched below image: Advertisement. In about seventeen years will be compleated, in six volumns, folio, price fifteen guineas, the exact measurements of the perriwigs of the ancients ..., Portraits after James 'Athenian' Stuart and Nicholas Revett., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 30.2 x 22.3 cm, on sheet 36.6 x 28.9 cm., Mounted on leaf 46 x 59 cm., and Plate 64 in the album: Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, Octr. 15, 1761 by W. Hogarth
Subject (Name):
Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804, and Stuart, James, 1713-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Antiquarians, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Wigs
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1777]
Call Number:
777.05.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Shown half length, a fashionably dressed woman faces right, her enormous hair occupying most of the image. At the top of her hair is a formal flower garden surrounded by hedges and tended by a diminutive gardener with a rake. On the sides are sausage-like curls and several trailing garlands of flowers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed in image by engraver: MD, i.e. Matthias Darly., and Numbered in plate at top: 15, V.2.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly May 1, 1777 where may be had Bath caricatures
A lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile sits at a table opposite a clergy man (Dr. Wilson) as she writes with a quill pen. The walls are lined with full bookshelves separated in the middle by a fireplace with a mantelpiece on which sits a bust of "Alfred rex". Both figures wear the same enormous hair as in British Museum no. 5441
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., In black ink plate numbered "2" added to upper right corner in ink., Mrs. Macauley and Dr. Wilson also appear in another Mattina Darly satirical print. See number 5441 in v. 5 of British Museum catalogue: A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world. [London] : Pub. May 1, 1777 by M Darly 39 Strand., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary annotations in pencil in lower margin: Mrs. M[...?]ly ; Dr. Wilson.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
Leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man in profile to the right. His hair is in an enormous twisted and looped club. He wears a laced coat and waistcoat, a frilled cravat and shirt, riding-boots, and a short sword. A riding-whip is under his right arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 91., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 17, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man in profile to the right. His hair is in an enormous twisted and looped club. He wears a laced coat and waistcoat, a frilled cravat and shirt, riding-boots, and a short sword. A riding-whip is under his right arm."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "18" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 17, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
A satirical portrait of an elegant young man, whole length in profile facing left, reading through a glass at a book on which is printed the alphabet. Probably a representation of Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk
Alternative Title:
Illiterate macaroni of twenty-one learning his A.B.C.
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from volume III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "20" in upper right corner., and For a later state with additional numbering, see no. 4652 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Publisher:
Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1739-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Eyeglasses, and Hairstyles
Two dandies (or bucks)-- one thin and one stout--shake hands as they greet each other in a field. They wear high-crowned hats of the period and tight breeches; they both have clubs stuffed in their pockets. The man on the left holds a monocle (quizzing glass) to his eye to inspect the othe rman
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist identified from signed drawing in the Huntington Library., See earlier state in the British Museum online catalogue: "Publish'd 21 Novr. 1791. by Robt. Sayer & Co. Fleet Street London.", Other plates in this series, numbers 78, 85, and 85, also published 12 May 1794. Laurie and Whittle purchased the plates from Robert Sayer in the spring of 1794., From the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series. Numbered '72' in lower left of plate., Caption below image: Ha! Jack is it you, how are you dam-me., Lewis Walpole Library: Year from date of imprint erased and replace with a manuscript '1' in black ink., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., For a description of the original drawing on which this print is based see: Isaac Cruikshank's drawings for Drolls. San Marino, Calif., The Huntington Library, 1968, no. 23., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 179[4?] by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Monocles, and Nightsticks
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two sedan chairs, borne by liveried chairmen, are about to pass each other on a cobbled street. In the chair on the left, the roof has been elevated to accommodate the enormous, ostrich-plume topped headdress of a lady. The head of a man is visible in the chair on the right
Alternative Title:
Capital conceit
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.
Leaf 84. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man (full-length) in profile stands looking left holding a trowel in his right hand; he holds his left hand in his pocket above the sword at his waist
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., 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 "18" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 84., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Sepr. 17, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 84. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man (full-length) in profile stands looking left holding a trowel in his right hand; he holds his left hand in his pocket above the sword at his waist
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., 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 "18" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt. Sepr. 17, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand