The new rigatta [graphic]

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Title: The new rigatta [graphic]
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: Feb. 20, 1777.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: Three caricatured women, with mountainous and feathered headdresses sit, feet in the air and hands clasped under their kness, floating down the Thames under the arches of a bridge, on their cork rumps. They are floating towards our right. At the extreme left three heads are blowing the wind that makes the ladies float. Five little ducks also appear in the lower left corner. This print may refer to the regatta at Richmond
Description: Title from item.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Three lines of text below title: 1 Prize. an entire new WIG, completely furnished with curls, cushion, feathers && and free admittance to all public amusements. 2 prize. a new pair of CORKS...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Headdress: female, 1776 -- Female costume: cork rump -- Birds: swans -- Regattas -- Arches of London bridge -- Winds.
Provenance: Auchincloss, vol. iii; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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