- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs, [approximately 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.01.19.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Date from Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, p. 786., Plate numbered '216' in lower left corner., Cf. No. 4527 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Temporary local subject terms: Trades -- Butchers' stalls -- Macaronies -- Male dress, 1773.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Butchers, Dandies, British, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Docking the macaroni [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [4 January 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.01.04.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men, both in elaborate wigs, sit on opposite sides of a table playing cribbage while a young woman seated between them at the end of the table, watches the game. The player on the left looks delightedly at his loosing opponent and puts another peg in the board. He has a large quantity of coins while his adversary has only one coin left. The table holds only one wine glass and one bottle only. On the wall behind them is a hanging bookshelf with feather pen in an inkwell and an oval painting (print?) of a mother and child (a Madonna and Child?)
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Window mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 4th, 1773, by W. Humphrey, St. Martins Lane
- Subject (Topic):
- Bookcases, Eating & drinking, Card games, Gambling, Games, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The cribbage players [graphic].
- Creator:
- Dixon, John, 1740-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.07.13.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., Eight lines of verse in two columns, one on each side of title: Behold this wretch! A fop at sixty two, a true conceited, ugly, worn out beau ..., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Old men -- Male dress: dressing gown -- Domestic service: valet -- Furniture: hanging bookcase -- Dressing table -- Mirror stand -- Cosmetics -- Wigs: toupée wig with queue -- Pictures amplifying subject: Narcissus admiring his own image in the stream -- Clocks -- Emblems: window curtain tassel as a fool's cap., and Publication date erased from this impression.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The old beau in an extasy [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [25 June 1773]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 C697 770
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old English farmer (left) dressed in top boots, breeches, a flat felt hat, and carrying a riding-whip arrives in town and is startled at seeing his son (right) dressed as a macaroni with very high toupée wig, a cane with a tassle, a sword, and a little cocked hat
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Companion print to: Heyday! is this my daughter Anne., Sheet trimmed to plate mark with loss of imprint., Possibly after a drawing by Grimm. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.4, no. 4536 for a similar print with the same title., No. 5 in a bound in a collection of 69 prints with a manuscript title page: A collection of drolleries., and Bound in half red morocco with marbled paper boards and spine title "Facetious" in gold lettering.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Farmers, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Welladay! Is this my son Tom! [graphic].