Macaronies drawn after their life [graphic].

Description

Title: Macaronies drawn after their life [graphic].
Contributor: Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: [1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by Sayer & Bennett
Description: Title engraved below image.
Description based on imperfect copy; sheet trimmed to plate mark on sides.
First published as no. 22 in a series by M. Darly, Decr. 1, 1773. Original title: Macaronies drawn after the life. Cf. No. 4645 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: hanging bookshelf -- Furniture: table -- Pictures amplifying subject: horse racing -- Books: allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Books: allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: country church -- Tools: spade.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, v. ii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 19 x 24.3 cm
Edition: [2nd state?].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Material: etching ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Gambling
Playing cards
Skeletons
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: Dandies > British
Gambling
Playing cards
Skeletons
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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