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1. Long corks, or, the bottle companions [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [11 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.11.02.1+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two elderly ladies are seated facing each other, the one on the left extremely fat and the one on the right very thin. Both display the extravagantly tall hairstyles of the day, topped by ostrich plumes. They are each seated on a large cork which issues from a bottle beneath them, an allusion to the protruding "cork rumps" which support their skirts
- Alternative Title:
- Bottle companions
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed in plate MD., i.e. Matthias Darly., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Early state, without numbering, of no. 5439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly April 11 1777, 39 Strand near York Buildings
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Skirts, Bottles, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Long corks, or, the bottle companions [graphic]
2. The extravaganza, or, The mountain head dress of 1776 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 10, 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.04.10.01+
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 9. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half length front view of a woman with elaborate hairstyle occupying the upper two thirds of the plate. Garlands of flowers together with fruit and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
- Alternative Title:
- Mountain head dress of 1776 and Mountain headdress of 1776
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Matthias Darly in the British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The extravaganza, or, The mountain head dress of 1776 [graphic].
3. The extravaganza, or, The mountain head dress of 1776 [graphic].
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 10, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 9. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half length front view of a woman with elaborate hairstyle occupying the upper two thirds of the plate. Garlands of flowers together with fruit and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
- Alternative Title:
- Mountain head dress of 1776 and Mountain headdress of 1776
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Tentatively attributed to Matthias Darly in the British Museum catalogue., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 9., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.2 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles and Wigs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The extravaganza, or, The mountain head dress of 1776 [graphic].
4. The flower garden [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 May 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.05.01.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Shown half length, a fashionably dressed woman faces right, her enormous hair occupying most of the image. At the top of her hair is a formal flower garden surrounded by hedges and tended by a diminutive gardener with a rake. On the sides are sausage-like curls and several trailing garlands of flowers
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Signed in image by engraver: MD, i.e. Matthias Darly., and Numbered in plate at top: 15, V.2.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly May 1, 1777 where may be had Bath caricatures
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Gardens, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The flower garden [graphic]
5. The ladies contrivance, or, The capital conceit [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [30 April 1777]
- Call Number:
- 777.04.30.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two sedan chairs, borne by liveried chairmen, are about to pass each other on a cobbled street. In the chair on the left, the roof has been elevated to accommodate the enormous, ostrich-plume topped headdress of a lady. The head of a man is visible in the chair on the right
- Alternative Title:
- Capital conceit
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 30, 1777 by M. Darly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Sedan chairs, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The ladies contrivance, or, The capital conceit [graphic]
6. The siege of cork [graphic]
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 11, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.04.11.01+ Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- In a landscape with trees in the rear, a young woman with extremely tall coiffure augmented at the top by 3 ostrich plumes, runs towards the right, pursued by 9 winged flying bottles evidently aimed at the "cork rump" which fills out the back of her skirts
- Description:
- Title from item., Signed in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by M Darly 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Skirts, Bottles, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The siege of cork [graphic]
7. Tight lacing, or, Hold fast behind [graphic] / MD [monogram].
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- March 1, 1777.
- Call Number:
- 777.03.01.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing table may be seen to the left
- Alternative Title:
- Hold fast behind
- Description:
- Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 29, V. 2.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by M Darly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Corsets, Fashion, Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Beds, Bedrooms, and Dressing tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Hold fast behind [graphic] / MD [monogram].
