Leaf 87. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A waiter carrying a tea tray and kettle, with a napkin under his arm and his hair in a large bun."--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 "5" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act Decr. 11, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Dandies, British, Waiters, Trays, and Kettles
Title from item., Publication date inferred from that of Smith and Sayer edition published on June 20, 1772. Cf. No. 4602 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Plate numbered '6' in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, 1772 -- Bag wig., and Watermark.
"Satire on fashion. A portly middle-aged man wearing riding boots, embroidered waistcoat and powdered wig peers through an eye-glass presumably at pictures offered at an auction the catalogue of which he holds with his riding crop in his left hand.."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Alternative Title:
Macaroni at a sale of pictures
Description:
Title from item., State with series numbers. Cf. No. 4601 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Publication date assigned based on that of the Sayer and Smith edition. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Series numbering "No. 29" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Connoisseurs -- Quizzing glasses., Watermark: initials G R under mostly cut off watermark., and Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
"Satire on fashion and incompetent riding. A tall thin fashionably dressed man sits awkwardly on a dapple grey horse moving to right beside the Serpentine; inn the back round a couple rides sedately to left, and a man rides a prancing horse; beyond the river are two deer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Macaroni taking his morning ride in Rotten Row, Hyde Park
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies., and Mounted to 29 x 39 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside & R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
Hyde Park (London, England),, England, and London.
"A sailor walking (right to left) arm in arm with a young woman, her right arm in his left. He wears striped trousers, and carries a cane. She wears a ribbon-trimmed hat, short petticoat with an over-dress draped above it at the back, and an apron. Behind are steps leading to a sea-wall, with ships. On the left are trees."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed and date erased from this impression., Date of imprint from British Museum catalogue., and Numbered in lower left of plate, 459.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Sailors, British, Military uniforms, and Clothing & dress
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[10 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.10.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven members of the City Militia march out of step towards the right, 2 birds flying overhead. A short fat drummer begins the procession, followed by an officer with sword in left hand, 2 pairs of soldiers carrying bayoneted muskets, and in the rear, a hunchback carrying a spear
Description:
Title from item., Soiled at top and trimmed into image with partial loss of artist's name., Artist from British Museum catalogue., Signed (by engraver?) in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 10, 1777 by MDarly ...
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Militia, Militias, Military uniforms, British, Drums, and Musketeers
"Soldiers march impassively in double file through a crowded street, and over the prostrate bodies of those whom they have overthrown. Military arrogance and foppishness are personified by the officer, much caricatured, with a grotesquely elongated waist (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7352). He places one toe on the body of a fish-woman who lies on her back, her legs much exposed. His outstretched right leg is poised above a crouching woman who tries to protect her barrow of vegetables. Two men holding muskets precede the officer; one tramples on the face of an infant. The officer is followed by a man carrying a pike, behind whom march six soldiers in double file carrying muskets with fixed bayonets. All march ruthlessly, eyes front, regardless of the havoc they are causing. A porter lies on the ground clutching a broken wooden case faintly inscribed 'Mr . . . Silversmith'; from it pour plate and jewels. The porter's knee is badly damaged, and his knot has been knocked from his shoulders. A milliner or courtesan lies on her back clutching the hair of a barber who clasps her leg. On the extreme right a prostrate woman tries to protect her infant, and a newsboy with his horn and a sheaf of the 'Morning Herald' tries to escape from the trampling soldiers. Other victims between the soldiers and the wall are a woman with a crutch, a shoeblack, a man with a tray of rolls. A pair of beseeching hands and two female legs (right) waving in the air add to the turmoil, which is accentuated by the writhing forms of the fish which fall from the fishwoman's basket. The background is formed by the wall of a stone building with two elaborately barred niches, and by the window of a silversmith's shop (right)."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Attributed to Gillray in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Abuses: military marches, 1787 -- Newspapers: Morning Herald -- Architectural details: barred niches -- Trampled victims -- Guns: muskets with fixed bayonets -- Protection of the Bank, 1787 -- Military march, double file -- Children: abused infant -- Shops: exterior of a silversmith shop -- Silversmith's box -- Vegetable sellers -- Fishwomen -- Allusion to the Strand -- Allusion to Cheapside -- Allusion to Fleet Street -- Porter's knot -- Newsboys -- Milliners., and Watermark: Hall & [...]plin 1804 on the right side of sheet; Strasburg bend on the left.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 22d, 1787, by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Soldiers, British, Military uniforms, Military officers, Marching, Food vendors, Porters, Rifles, Barbers, Newspaper carriers, and Storefronts
Leaf 66. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A midshipman, no longer young, in shirtsleeves, sits on a padlocked chest blacking a boot. He looks straight before him with a tragic expression. He wears his regulation top-hat, blue trousers, neatly patched, and waistcoat over a white shirt, and sits on the midshipman's coat which he has taken off. On the ground at his feet are a tray for blacking-brushes, a pot labelled Warrens Blacking 30 Strand, a broken dirk, top-boots, and shoes. Behind are houses on Tower Hill, with the moat. Behind (left) is an alehouse, with a pair of trousers hanging as a sign from a projecting flagstaff. Inset in the title is a group of sextant, telescope, a book: . . . ton More, &c, below the pawnbroker's sign of three balls."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Midshipman on half pay
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from text on earlier state: Engd. & pubd. ... by C. Hunt ..., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published 1 June 1825 by Charles Hunt, see no. 14921 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10, Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], and On leaf 66 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket and Field & Tuer
Subject (Geographic):
Tower Hill (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, Sailors, British, Military officers, Boots, Brooms & brushes, Shoe shining, and Shoe polishes