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- Creator:
- W., I., active 1772, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.06.25.01.1+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 18. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of macaronis in a dressing room, one having his hair dressed by a flamboyant hairdresser and his young black assistant, another practising fencing, a third plays with his pet cockatoo, another looks down at a servant boy who is spilling a tray of cups. The pictures on the wall allude to the action ("Morning Devotion") and themes (Rotten Row Macaroni) in the print; also an ornate mirror is centered in the room on the wall. On the floor is a sheet with the Newmarket horse races listed. The man having his hair tended wears beauty patches on his cheek
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., and For another version of this design in reverse, see no. 4781 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
- Publisher:
- Pub. according to act June 26th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Boudoirs, Cockatoos, Dandies, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, and Vanity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A macaroni dressing room [graphic]
