Leaf 6. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a closed carriage made visible by being bisected longitudinally. In it two young ladies of pleasing appearance sit face to face in profile, apparently on the floor, or on very low seats, to make room for their monstrous mounds of hair...
Alternative Title:
Vis-à-vis bisected, or, The ladies coop and Ladies coop
Leaf 7. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
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
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
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 28. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"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...
Description:
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
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looki...
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are...
Alternative Title:
America's head dress and America's headdress
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and England
Subject (Topic):
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
After page 16. Trial of Elizabeth duchess dowager of Kingston for bigamy, before the Right
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
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
Description:
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...
Publisher:
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 half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robb...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
