The lilly-white maccaroni [graphic].

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Title: The lilly-white maccaroni [graphic].
Alternative Title: Lily-white maccaroni
Lily-white macaroni
Contributor: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: published as the act directs [approximately 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Abstract: A dandy shown full-length seated to right, holding a phial to his nose and gazing at his reflection while a hairdresser prepares to attach a looped queue to his wig
Description: Title etched below image.
Carington Bowles was located at this address between 1766 and 1793; date of 1774 based on other prints in a series on the same topic.
Numbered '210' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 156 x 111 mm, on sheet 160 x 121 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Mezzotints England London 1774
Material: mezzotint with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
Subject (Topic): Braids (Hairdressing)
Clothing & dress
Dandies
Hairdressing
Mirrors
Wigs
Subjects: Braids (Hairdressing)
Clothing & dress > Great Britain > 1770-1780
Dandies
Hairdressing
Mirrors
Wigs
England > 1774
England > London > 1774

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