Leaf 100. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
"Whole length caricature portrait of a lawyer walking in profile to the left. He is obese with several chins; his head is shaved and he carries a large wig. In his left hand is a rolled document. He wears a voluminous gown which rests on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21th [sic], 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Lawyers, Obesity, Wigs, and Robes
Leaf 100. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
"Whole length caricature portrait of a lawyer walking in profile to the left. He is obese with several chins; his head is shaved and he carries a large wig. In his left hand is a rolled document. He wears a voluminous gown which rests on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below. Initials partially trimmed., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 12.5 cm., on sheet 19 x 13 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21th [sic], 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Lawyers, Obesity, Wigs, and Robes
Caricature of extremely corpulent man facing left wearing large wig and tricorne, his hand in pocket. One of a series of four caricatures, this one is meant to represent "a fat fellow of Brazen-nose College."
Description:
Title from item. and Name of engraver (Torre?) from another plate in series, burnished from lower right of plate leaving traces visible.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Lord North balances smugly on his left foot atop the beam of a pair of scales tipping the balance in favor of a very obese Charles Fox. Fox laughs at Lord Shelburne who remains suspended on the other scale, unable to bring it down despite stamping his feet. He is being enveloped by a cloud of gas labelled "anathema" being excreted by North. Above to the left, George III, blindfolded with a tartan handkerchief, with the crown suspended above his head, reaches out from a cloud to place an enourmous wig on North's head
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted to 41 x 30 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. July 11th, 1783 by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., and Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Scales, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
"A fashionable crowd, with two card-tables, a round table in the foreground (left) at which four persons play Pope-Joan; the most conspicuous is a pretty young woman directed to the left, her loose semi-transparent draperies revealing her person and leaving her breasts almost uncovered. A leering man stands behind her chair, negligently holding candle-snuffers to a candle on the table, in order to peer down her décolletage. A stout lady in back view, sitting on a stool (identified as Lady Buckinghamshire, but (?) Duchess of Gordon), a little girl, and an elderly man (identified as Dr. Sneyd) complete the table. On the right is another card-table at which three persons are playing. Standing figures freely sketched form a background, the whole design being dominated by the erect feathers of the ladies, usually springing from a turban."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Peeping-Tom spying out Pope-Joan
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Full length depiction of an enormously fat gloved lady wearing a giant beribboned calash hat as she stands in an outdoor setting facing right. Huge curls of hair issue from beneath the hat, and her outer cloak, which is short enough to reveal two-tone shoes, is adorned with large bows and a floral pattern
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 37, v. 2.
A very fat and sour-looking woman stands facing right, in an outdoor setting with trees in the distance. She is dressed in a fancy striped dress, her mountain of curly hair topped by an elaborate bonnet with ribbons and bows
Description:
Title from item., Signed (by engraver?) in lower left of image: HI, i.e. Hen. Ibb.?, Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: V. 2, 63.
An enormously obese woman in an elaborate dress with hooped skirt, her large mass of hair frizzed in a beehive shape. In her gloved left hand she holds a fan
Description:
Title from item. and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Leaf 49. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a breeches-maker's shop or workroom. Two men standing, one on a chair, the other on a stool, are attempting to pull up the very tight breeches of a stout man, who is lifted from the ground by their efforts. A stout woman enters from the right holding a pair of breeches under her arm. On the wall is a placard: 'Ramskin, Elastic Spring Breeches Maker They set close to the Hips and never alter their Shape which Thousands can Testify Likewise a large & curious assortment of Breeches Balls Straps Boot Garters &c &c &c.' Breeches and straps hang on the wall (right). The room is raftered and very scantily furnished."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker identified as Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Restrike. For original issue of the plate, see no. 6723 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Plate from: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c. [London] : [Field & Tuer], [ca. 1868?], Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 148., and On leaf 49 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1, 1784, by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand and Field & Tuer
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Clothing & dress, Trousers, and Obesity
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance