Depicts a young lady, fashionably dressed, walking and carrying an enormous parasol to cover her monumental hair, which is dressed in the extravagant heart-shaped style of the period, with curls on the sides, flowers and ostrich plumes at the top. She also apparently wears the fashionable cork bustle, with the back of her protruding skirt providing a ledge on which a "foppishly dressed man" is seated, sheltered by her hair and umbrella. On the left in front of the lady a rustically dressed man has dropped his hat in amazement, while behind her a gentleman in a tricorne hat and leaning on a walking stick points and laughs at the spectacle
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet torn at top along plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to Act of Part. Septr 1, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, and Umbrellas
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.
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her high heels are visible beneath the hem of a quilted skirt. To the left is a chair beneath a casement window, while a bird in a cage is suspended from the ceiling on the right
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item. and Eight lines of verse in 2 columns below image beginning: "The hoity head & toity waist, As now they're all the ton ..."
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Three men and two women in a lottery insurance office, one man with quill pen behind desk. The other individuals all hold bills reading "Mess. Gosling & Co. pay the bearer one hundred..." Sign on back wall reads "Tickets insured by Iohnson & Co." and coat of arms of George III is visible on wall to the right. One of the women is a barmaid and holds 2 tankards
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imprint from Lottery magazine.
Publisher:
Edward Johnson
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Lottery winners, Lotteries, Drinking vessels, Interiors, Coats of arms, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 105. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man is shown full-length walking to the right, a large hat box tucked under his right arm; he carries a bag of supplies for his trade, including a smaller box marked "BLOND", in his left hand. He is dressed in macaroni fashion, with a large club wig, a hat, and a neckcloth
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male milliners., and Second of three plates on leaf 105.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Occupations, Hats, and Wigs
Elegantly coiffed and dressed lady faces to the right holding fan, while behind her and facing away stands another woman with a similar dress and hair style
Description:
Title from item., At head of title: Engraved for the Lady's Magazine., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 215., and Imperfect; with offset from letterpress.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1772]
Call Number:
772.04.01.04.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach. His right hand is thrust inside his coat, his left is in his coat-pocket. His hat is under his left arm. He wears a laced coat, a shirt with lace ruffles and a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sr. Humpy. Haunch, bart. of Glutton Hall, Sir Humphrey Haunch, Baronet, of Glutton Hall, and Venison and claret
Description:
Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue., Series numbered in upper left and right corner, respectively: V. 2 22., and On verso: "Ld. B. Album."
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st 1772, according to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Obesity
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 April 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.2 plate 22
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length figure standing towards the left looking over his left shoulder. He is stout with an enormously protruding stomach. His right hand is thrust inside his coat, his left is in his coat-pocket. His hat is under his left arm. He wears a laced coat, a shirt with lace ruffles and a sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Sr. Humpy. Haunch, bart. of Glutton Hall, Sir Humphrey Haunch, baronet, of Glutton Hall, and Venison and claret
Description:
Title from text below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram. M. Darly for Mary Darly or Matthew (or Matthias) Darly the printmaker? See British Museum catalogue., Early state. For reissue with additional numbering, see no. 5002 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Plate numbered "22" in upper right corner., and Imperfect; subtitle has been erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, Strand, April 1st 1772, according to act
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, and Obesity
Leaf 46. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
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 "V. 3" in upper left corner and "3" in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printed on one sheet with a companion print: What's! this my boy Tom., Second of two plates on leaf 46., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 17.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
