Volume 2, after page 270. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and his contemporaries.
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1
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still image
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A man in riding dress stands on the right, bending forward to take the hand of a young woman on the left, who leans away from him. He wears spurred top-boots and holds a whip in his left hand; a long queue protrudes from under his hat. The woman has a...
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Title etched below image.
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Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
A rather oversized woman with towering hairstyle is seated facing right, singing as she plays a piano. On the piano is a sheet of music entitled "Anna", with more music on the floor and books labelled "Scotch airs," "New songs", and "Cottilio." A smal...
Alternative Title:
Accomplished maid
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly May 21, 1778 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Interiors, Singing, Cupboards, Bookcases, Pianos, and Hairstyles
Rear view of seven individuals seated on a bench, two of them men, one with a clerical wig and the other a pigtail queue, perhaps a caricature of the artist. The women exhibit elaborate hairstyles, pinched waists and cork bustles of the period
Leaf 28. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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"Persons standing in conversation at a party. The principal figures are two elaborately dressed ladies of plebeian, elderly, and unattractive appearance who face each other; one holds a card, the other a fan. Their hair is awkwardly dressed in the eno...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Parties, Social life and customs, Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Wigs, Fans, Servants, and Feathers
A social gathering, in which two elaborately dressed and coiffed old ladies stand conversing in the center foreground, as a short footman of unprepossessing appearance carries in a tray loaded with a tankard and a triple stand of jelly glasses. In the...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London
Subject (Topic):
Parties, Social life and customs, Hairstyles, Wigs, Servants, Clothing & dress, and Feathers
Full length view of a young woman standing in profile looking to the right and front. Her hair forms an enormous pyramid and at its apex is pinned a frilled cap with long streamers of lace and ribbon. On the projection at the back of her skirt sits a...
Alternative Title:
Chloe's cushion
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub'd Novr. 19, 1776 by J. Walker, No. 13 Parliament St.
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Skirts, Hairstyles, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
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.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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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
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Mountain head dress of 1776 and Mountain headdress of 1776
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
In a landscape setting, two young women fashionably attired, and with their elaborate hairstyles adorned with ostrich plumes, flee towards the left pursued by two angry and plucked ostriches. The foremost bird lunges at the feathers on the head of one...
Alternative Title:
Feathered fair in a fright
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Ostriches, Animal attacks, and Dogs
A goose-stepping officer carrying a javelin and a tricorne hat and wearing a pigtail queue marches towards the left in an outdoor setting. Coxheath was a military encampment
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. Novr. 5, 1778 by Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Wigs, Spears, Military uniforms, British, Military officers, and Hairstyles
Profile head of a woman facing left with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper two thirds of the print. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with vegetables, carrots and parsnips in particular, while from the top protrude a bunch of asparagus, ...
A lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile sits at a table opposite a clergy man (Dr. Wilson) as she writes with a quill pen. The walls are lined with full bookshelves separated in the middle by a fireplace with a mantelpiece on which s...
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Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
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...
Lady with elaborate headdress sitting in chair in front of a sofa holds an open book (The whole duty of man) in her left hand and pulls up her skirts with the right, while a kneeling man in a pigtail wig and wearing a sword examines her left foot as i...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Pub. June 1 by M Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Foot, Care and hygiene, Couples, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Interiors, Feet, Sofas, and Hairstyles
Phaeton and pair are stopped outside a town house, the box of the conveyance raised on an accordion-like mechanism to enable a lady to climb in from the second storey window. She is fashionably dressed with huge ostrich feathers in her enormous headdr...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Balconies, Horses, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
Just inside the open door on the left a man in military coat, with sword in hand angrily confronts an old bewigged man who rests on one knee near a small table and holds a paper inscribed "Wm. Day bond 100". Another man restrains the first, while two ...
Alternative Title:
Bond canceled
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Usury, Clothing & dress, Interiors, and Hairstyles
Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and veg...
Alternative Title:
Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
Leaf 27. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady seated at dressing table is attended by a hairdresser standing behind her on a stool, and arranging ostrich feathers in her towering coiffure. Her maid (?) also with her hair in an inverted pyramid, approaches carrying a basket of fruit and veg...
Alternative Title:
Preposterous headdress, or, The featherd lady, Featherd lady, and Feathered lady
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Wigs, Clothing & dress, Dressing tables, Feathers, and Hairdressing
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
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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 s...
A young lady sits reading a book, her right elbow resting on a table on which lie two other volumes. Behind her is a drapery swathed column and an open window through which a rose bush and trees are visible. A large pot of geraniums stands before the ...
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Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Reading, Hats, Aprons, Interiors, Clothing & dress, and Hairstyles
