Just inside the open door on the left a man in military coat, with sword in hand angrily confronts an old bewigged man who rests on one knee near a small table and holds a paper inscribed "Wm. Day bond 100". Another man restrains the first, while two women occupy the background, one, probably a servant, holding a pocket watch
Alternative Title:
Bond canceled
Description:
Title from item., At top of plate: London Mage. June 1775., and Probably from the London Magazine.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Usury, Clothing & dress, Interiors, and Hairstyles
Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and vegetables, several of which already adorn the first woman's hair
Alternative Title:
Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
Description:
Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5370 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., On leaf 27., 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm., and Imperfect; sheet mutilated in lower right corner with loss of year from end of imprint statement.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and vegetables, several of which already adorn the first woman's hair
Alternative Title:
Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
Description:
Title etched below image., State without plate number. Cf. No. 5370 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
Satire showing an elegant young man walking to right with a cane over his right shoulder
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "19" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, accor. to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Staffs (Sticks)
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 11, 1777.
Call Number:
777.04.11.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a landscape with trees in the rear, a young woman with extremely tall coiffure augmented at the top by 3 ostrich plumes, runs towards the right, pursued by 9 winged flying bottles evidently aimed at the "cork rump" which fills out the back of her skirts
Description:
Title from item., Signed in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
A young lady sits reading a book, her right elbow resting on a table on which lie two other volumes. Behind her is a drapery swathed column and an open window through which a rose bush and trees are visible. A large pot of geraniums stands before the window. The young lady wears a black hat with a blue ribbon at the back, an open robe with a large breast knot over a patterned fringed skirt. Over her robe is a striped apron and her shoes are buckled, two-tone with Italian heels
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publication date erased from this impression., Date surmised from British Museum catalogue, v.5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles." See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, and Numbered in lower left of plate "371".
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Reading, Hats, Aprons, Interiors, Clothing & dress, and Hairstyles
Leaf 93. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man stands in profile to the left in a rural setting. He looks along the barrel of a gun with a raised trigger. He wears a large looped-up club, low hat, a coat with facings, half-boots and striped stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner., First of three plates on leaf 93., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 12.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Jany. 16, 1773, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Leaf 93. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man stands in profile to the left in a rural setting. He looks along the barrel of a gun with a raised trigger. He wears a large looped-up club, low hat, a coat with facings, half-boots and striped stockings."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Jany. 16, 1773, by MDarly, (39) Strand
A corpulent man, whole length in profile facing right, holds a walking stick with hooked handle and wears his hair in a long pig-tail
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbers in upper left "V.5" and upper right corner of plate "1"., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Bound as 19.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to the act, Octr. 22, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs