Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man walking fast in profile to the right. In his left hand and resting on his left shoulder is a long pair of scales: a small pair is in his right hand. An instrument resembling a pair of shears is attached to the right side of his coat. His hat is ornamented with the feather of a pen."--British Museum online catalogue and "'The Act' is evidently the Coin Act ... which had made scales necessary for all to whom payments were made in gold."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
P[ub.] [as] the act directs, July 22d, 1773 by MDarly (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Money, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Scales
Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man walking fast in profile to the right. In his left hand and resting on his left shoulder is a long pair of scales: a small pair is in his right hand. An instrument resembling a pair of shears is attached to the right side of his coat. His hat is ornamented with the feather of a pen."--British Museum online catalogue and "'The Act' is evidently the Coin Act ... which had made scales necessary for all to whom payments were made in gold."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "12" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 97., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.3 x 12.3 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
P[ub.] [as] the act directs, July 22d, 1773 by MDarly (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):
Money, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Scales
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
Charles Fox, dressed as Cromwell, paints the execution of Charles I, using royal crown and sceptre as artist's tools. Above the canvas hangs a painting showing a fox, with the Liberty cap on a stick, presenting a male figure of America with a sheet of paper inscribed, "Independence." Behind Fox stands the angry female figure of Justice, her blindfold removed, a sword inscribed, "justice," in her right hand. In the left hand she holds a pair of scales of which the one filled with "loyalty" outweighs the one holding a fox. On the floor lies an open volume entitled, "Patriotism by C. Cromwell," propped on the hilt of a sword labeled, "Commonwealth."
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, by J. Cattermoul, No. 376 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806. and Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Painting, Scales, Daggers & swords, Foxes, and Clothing & dress
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
767.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashionable life described in a sub-title as "Address'd to the Professors of Driving, Dressing, Ogling, Writing, Playing, Gambling, Racing, Dancing, Duelling, Boxing, Swearing, Humming, Building, &c. &c. &c." with broad space flanked by large buildings leading down to the sea. On the left, "The Academy for the Noble Art of Boxing NB Mufflers provided for delicate Constitutions" through the windows of which a pugilist can be seen addressing a yong nobleman, and two men boxing. Beside this a theatre into which a large crowd enters via a staircase, encouraged by a zany standing on a balcony with three actresses, two actors wearing turbans and another dressed as a soldier; the sign above refers to notorious hoaxes of the earlier part of the century: "Britannia Humm'd Or the Tragedy of the Secret Expedition [presumably the Expedition on Rochefort, 1757], A Mock Tragedy to which is added a Farce call'd The Pregnant Rabit Woman [i.e., Mary Toft], Together with the Adventures of the Bottle Conjurer [see BM Satires 3022, 1868,0808.3875], and Polish Jew [Henry Simons]. As likewise the taking ye Standard at the Battle of Dittingen." The next house is built in a variety of styles; beyond, the sea the sun rises "for the Vigilant". In the foreground fashionable people are shown as described in a key below: 1. "British Nobility disguis'd", three women dressed in French style in an open carriage are bowed to by 2. a foppish young man "Return'd from the Polite Tour"; behind him 3. "Foreign Insolence [is] express'd by the French Valet de Chambre daring to Insult 4. English Bravery in Distress [an old sailor with a wooden leg], reduc'd to ask Alms in his Native Country, after having courageously lost his limbs in Defence of it on board a Privateer & unjustly kept out of his Prize-money"; next is 5. "The Optical Ogle, or polite Curiosity", a young gentleman peering at the women in the carriage through an eye-glass; 6. "An Author", a miserable gentleman with his hands tucked into the breast of his coat who is barked at by two dogs; by contrast, 7. "A Player" reclines comfortably in a sedan chair, a footman walking before him; 8. describes a scene at the door of the house on the right, "The Industrious Tradesman thrust off with Contempt, expecting a just Debt to be paid, to make room for a high Life Gambler [also in a sedan chair], politely usher'd in to receive his Debt of Honour"; behind this group is, 9. "A Feather of the Turf", a man mounted on a high gig drives two horses, and 10. "The Balance of Merit in this happy Climate for useless Exotics, [where] A French Dancing Master obtains 300£ pr. Ann. & a clear Benefit worth near 300£ more, while the Ingenious English Shipwright, tho' Assistant to the Honour Profit & Defence of his Country, by hard Labour barely obtains 40£ pr. Ann."; on the left, 11. a hearse drives into the scene with "The Corps[e] of a Blood, conveying to Interment, who boldly lost his Life in a Duel defending the Reputation of a Prostitute"; 12. is the house beside the sea, "Modern Architecture The Corinthian, Venetian, Gothic & Chinese huddled in one Front,"; 13. an old woman leaning out of an upper window calling to a woman and two men at the door represents "Modern Hospitality in the Character of Old Age, left to take care of Furniture, & answer Duns that the Family is in the Country"; 14. fishing boats at sea are reminders that "One British Buss [fishing boat] of more service to the Community than ten Italian Singers"."--British Museun online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below image: Explanation. 1 British Nobility disguis'd, 2 Return'd from the Polite Tour, 3 Foreign Insolence express'd by the French valet de chambre daring to insult 4 English Bravery in distress ..., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm., window mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
A scale is depicted in which Lord North, dressed as a washerwoman, is weighed down with the assistance of Fox (a fox on the cross beam). Or the right, Lord Shelburne, depicted as a Jesuit in monastic garb wearing the ribbon of a Knight of the Garter and holding a money bag signed "Blessings of Peace" in his right hand, sits in the upper pan of the balance, with his tombstone below. The attacks of the North-Fox coalition eventually led to Shelburne's stepping down in February 1783
Alternative Title:
Up with the Jesuit
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1783 by A. Killingbeck, Dover Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Scales, Laundresses, Monks, Foxes, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
George III, seated on a low square stool placed atop a building inscribed "St Stephens Chapel. 1783," is holding in his left hand an empty scale and pointing to its perfect balance with his right one. Below the design is the text, "I'm above all! I yet Rule the Roast [sic]! As I please the Balance shall preponderate!" It appears to refer to the King's attempts to break the North-Fox coalition after Shelburne's resignation in February 1783
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. March 6th. 1783 by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,
Subject (Topic):
Scales, Chapels, Clothing & dress, and Politics and government
