Lady Drudger going to Ranelagh [graphic].

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Title: Lady Drudger going to Ranelagh [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: April 25th, 1772.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accorg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Abstract: "A large woman who holds in one hand a tailor's dummy on top of which is a tall wig which she is diligently powdering from a sprinkler."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18 x 11 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of plate number from upper right corner.
Mounted to 21 x 14 cm.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. ii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18.3 x 12.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Edition: [State with volume and plate numbering].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 772.04.25.01.2
Collection Title: Leaf 73. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Wigs
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Wigs
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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