After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
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1
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still image
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Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, attending her trial for bigamy. The maids of honour hold a bottle marked "cordial". They are followed by a fat chaplain, a physician with a bigwig and sword, and a lean apothecary with a big enema syringe
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Elizabeth Chudleigh married the Hon. Augustus John Hervey secretly in 1744; the marriage was not registered until 1759. In 1769 a consistory court declared her unmarried, after which she married Evelyn Pierrepoint, 2nd Duke of Kingston, in 1770. She w...
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publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788 and Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Physicians, pharmacists, physicians, chaplains, Chaplains, Trials (Bigamy), Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Medical equipment & supplies, and Clergy
Opposite page 108. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
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1
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A man wearing his hat and holding his walking stick is seated in a chair before a fireplace enjoying the embrace of a lady seated to his right and with a high coiffure and feathered hat. A younger man with a tall egg-shaped toupée is being ushered ou...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Clothing & dress, Interiors, and Wigs
Full length depiction of a fashionably dressed woman, a small dog under her left arm. Her head is topped by an enormous heart-shaped coiffure, garlanded with flowers and beads and surmounted by three ostrich feathers
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. May 15 1776 by J. Lockington Shug Lane ...
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.11.02.1+
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1
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still image
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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 issu...
Alternative Title:
Bottle companions
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly April 11 1777, 39 Strand near York Buildings
Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
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1
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still image
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A couple in profile, half-length, both the woman on the left and the man on the right smile at each other. Their hair is piled high on their heads in an elaborate style
Alternative Title:
Two insignificants
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd accord. to act, Feby. 1, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Leaf 36. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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A couple in profile, half-length, both the woman on the left and the man on the right smile at each other. Their hair is piled high on their heads in an elaborate style
Alternative Title:
Two insignificants
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd accord. to act, Feby. 1, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
An enormously obese woman in an elaborate dress with hooped skirt, her large mass of hair frizzed in a beehive shape. In her gloved left hand she holds a fan
Two men playing shuttlecock, an obese clergyman on the left and a gentleman in pigtail queue on right. Their airborne "shuttlecock" is a woman with the huge feathered coiffure of the day and the fashionable "cork rump" or bustle visible beneath her sk...
Alternative Title:
Miss shuttlecock
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Badminton (Game), Hairstyles, Badminton, and Clothing & dress
"Three women walking in profile to the right beside the sea or a lake. Their head-dresses are caricatures of the prevailing fashion. The foremost walks with a closed parasol on a long stick like a shepherdess's crook; in her right hand is a small bag ...
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Misses Dumplin Ducktail and Tittup returned from watering
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly No. 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Name):
Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Mineral waters, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, and Umbrellas
Head and shoulder profile caricature of clergyman in wig and bands, with face absurdly concave in shape, features accentuated by jutting chin and protruding hair
A woman facing left under an enormous coiffure. Within her hair several scenes illustrate the progress of the American war for independence. At the top, an American fort exchanges fire with British cannon. Flags over the fort bear images of a crossbow...
Alternative Title:
Howe are we decieved
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 12, 1778 by M Darly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Boston (Mass.), Great Britain, United States, America., and England
Subject (Name):
Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814.
Subject (Topic):
History, Politics and government, Colonies, Wigs, Military camps, Forts & fortifications, and Hairstyles
Leaf 7. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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Rear view of a woman's elaborate hairstyle which culminates in a huge bonnet with ostrich plumes. A collection of fruits and vegetables is nestled among her curls, and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
Rear view of a woman's elaborate hairstyle which culminates in a huge bonnet with ostrich plumes. A collection of fruits and vegetables is nestled among her curls, and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
A fashionably dressed woman with elaborate coiffure decorated with ribbons and ostrich plumes, holds a whip in the left hand and reins in the right, as she rides on the back of a corpulent man with horns. He leans on his walking stick, the reins in h...
Alternative Title:
Scripture fulfilled
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Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Marriage, Cuckolds, Couples, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
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1
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still image
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A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a ...
Alternative Title:
Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a ...
Alternative Title:
Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Seated at a table before a fireplace, a fat woman with a mountainous headress faces an ugly man as they play a game of push-pin. On the right is a sofa, while on the wall behind them 2 portraits (male on left and female on right) hang in oval frames, ...
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Title from item.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Couples, Games, Interiors, and Clothing & dress
Image above 6 stanzas of explanatory poetry engraved in double columns. A balding lady on horseback in Hyde Park's Rotten Row loses her tête or head-dress to a gust of wind, as her horse bolts toward the right. Two other horsemen as well as a gardene...
Alternative Title:
Fate of the tête
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. as the act directs, 16th April 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Piccadilly
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[29 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.29.01+
Image Count:
1
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In a park with trees, a fashionably dressed man and woman encounter each other near the footpath. The man wears a sword, large shoe-buckles, and enormous buttons which flash at the lady who recoils from their brightness. She is dressed in a tight-wais...
Alternative Title:
Coup de bouton
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. 29 April, 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho
A young lady, fashionably dressed with the big hair style of the day, walks along a park pathway, towards two elderly gentlemen, one tall and thin, the other quite stout, who approach her from the left. She turns back to the right to smile at another ...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to Act of Parlt. May 4, 1777, by I. Lockington, Shug Lane, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Walking, and Benches
