Macarony heroes [graphic].

Description

Title: Macarony heroes [graphic].
Alternative Title: Macaroni heroes
Published / Created: [ca. 1770]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Two macaronies in large club wigs fight with swords and canes a flock of geese they happened upon. One of the geese runs away with its wing cut off while a dog running behind them receives a sword thrust in its leg
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: So full of courage & so swift, the gallant macky's lay about ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 22 x 33 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 20 x 29 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1770
Engravings England London 1770
Etchings England London 1770
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Subjects: Dandies > British
England > 1770
England > London > 1770

Access: Public
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