- Creator:
- Darly, Mattina, active 1764-1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.05.01.03+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- On the right, a lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile and wearing a morning gown, sits at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses, decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. On the left behind the lady, a skeleton stands at a rectangular table grasping with both hands an hour-glass whose sands have run into the lower glass out the bottom onto the table. On the table there is also a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow. On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right (Dr. Wilson).
- Alternative Title:
- Speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
- Description:
- Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 3, v.2.
- Publisher:
- Pub May 1, 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Death, Hairstyles, Hearses, Skeletons, Hourglasses, Dressing tables, Clothing & dress, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Darly, Mattina, active 1764-1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.05.01.08
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- 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.
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Private libraries, Sculpture, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The historians [graphic]