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1. A macaroni dressing room [graphic]
- Creator:
- W., I., active 1772, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1772]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- 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., 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., On leaf 18., and 1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
- 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]
2. A macaroni dressing room [graphic]
- 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]
3. A macaroni dressing room [graphic]
- Creator:
- W., I., fl. 1772, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [26 June 1772]
- Call Number:
- 772.06.25.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '22' in upper left and '12' in upper right corner., Another state, with two plate numbers and by a different publisher. Cf. No. 4781 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., and Watermark: countermark IV.
- Publisher:
- Pub. according to act June 26th 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Boudoirs, Cockatoos, Dandies, Hairdressing, Mirrors, Servants, and Vanity
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A macaroni dressing room [graphic]
4. A macaroni family returning from church [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [June 1773]
- Call Number:
- 773.06.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group of people are shown walkiing down a city street as they return from a church service. Two carry bibles, one a snuff-box. One man carries a large muff, and the woman wears a skirt with an enormous hoop. The church is shown in the background on the right
- Description:
- Title from item., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Companion print: The old political macaroni with his wise family at breakfast. See Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 4821., and Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine, or, Monthly register of the fashions and diversions of the times. London : John Williams, June 1773, p. 403.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Chimney sweeps, Churches, City & town life, Dandies, Dogs, Servants, and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A macaroni family returning from church [graphic].
5. A real rubber! At whist [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, George, active 1824-1831, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- 1827. and 1827 [approximately 1868?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 836C (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 44. Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Four elderly whist-players, broadly burlesqued. A grotesque woman (left), holding a hand of five low cards in all suits, exclaims (words below the title): "O Lor' Sir! I've | "Lost my Honor!"; she tilts her head so that the aigrette in her turban burns in a candle (unnoticed by the players). Her furious partner: "Then Ma'am You shou'dn't | "have played the Odd Trick. A dandy, warming his back at the fire (left), stares at the conflagration, and an amused footman capers off to the right, tilting a salver."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Restrike, bearing the imprint of the 1827 reissue by Thomas McLean. For original issue of the plate, published ca. 1825 by George Hunt, see no. 15005 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 44 of: Caricatures drawn & etched by those celebrated artists Gillray, Rowlandson, Cruikshanks, &c.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket and Field & Tuer
- Subject (Topic):
- Card games, Older people, Candles, Servants, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A real rubber! At whist [graphic]
6. An English macaroni at Paris changeing English guineas for silver. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- March 17th, 1774.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 50. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An Englishman directing two men to load bags of silver into a carriage where his wife is seated, while the money-changer gives thanks to heaven for his luck."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- English macaroni at Paris : changing English guineas for silver
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Grand Tour -- Servants: Black boy., Second of two plates on leaf 50., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 18 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Carriages & coaches, Servants, Bags, and Coins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An English macaroni at Paris changeing English guineas for silver. [graphic]
7. An English macaroni at Paris changeing English guineas for silver. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- March 17th, 1774.
- Call Number:
- 774.03.17.01
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 50. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "An Englishman directing two men to load bags of silver into a carriage where his wife is seated, while the money-changer gives thanks to heaven for his luck."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- English macaroni at Paris : changing English guineas for silver
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "15" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Grand Tour -- Servants: Black boy., and Watermark (partially trimmed): Strasburg bend.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Carriages & coaches, Servants, Bags, and Coins
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An English macaroni at Paris changeing English guineas for silver. [graphic]
8. Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.13+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on the "macaroni' hairstyles for women: a man seated on a bench (left) in a park stares at two women with fashionable macaroni hair pieces as they walk past him, left to right. The two women are accompanied by a lap-dog and a black page boy
- Alternative Title:
- Female fashionable follies
- Description:
- Title etched below image., First published with the title: The fashionable dresses for the year 1776., Date erased from this impression. Date from British Museum catalogue., and In the lower left corner of the print: No. 345.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Benches, Boys, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].
9. Corruption [art original].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1790]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 20 Box D200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A servant (butcher?) with his hands on his hips looks suspicously at a fashionably dressed man as the latter crosses one arm in front of his chest completing an apologetic bow and uses the other to secretly slide a package behind his back to a thrid unidentified individual penciled in outline. The inscribed caption reads: Permit me good sir to solicit your countenance. You be damned!
- Description:
- Title penciled in below image. and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Corruption, Bribes, Servants, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Corruption [art original].