The city rout [graphic].

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Title: The city rout [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: May 20, 1776.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accog. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A social gathering, in which two elaborately dressed and coiffed old ladies stand conversing in the center foreground, as a short footman of unprepossessing appearance carries in a tray loaded with a tankard and a triple stand of jelly glasses. In the background groups of men converse. Behind them hangs a painting inscribed S.P.Q.L., depicting a man in a shirt between two lions who have seized him by the arms
Description: Title from item.
Later state, with plate number added.
Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Numbered in top left of plate: 32.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss coll. vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 28 x 39 cm
Edition: [2nd state?].
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Material: etching ;
Subject (Geographic): London (England)
England
London
Subject (Topic): Parties
Social life and customs
Hairstyles
Wigs
Servants
Clothing & dress
Feathers
Subjects: Parties
London (England) > Social life and customs > 18th century
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Wigs
Servants
Clothing & dress > England > London > 18th century
Feathers
England > 1776
England > London > 1776

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