The siege of cork [graphic]

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Title: The siege of cork [graphic]
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created: April 11, 1777.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by M Darly 39 Strand
Abstract: In a landscape with trees in the rear, a young woman with extremely tall coiffure augmented at the top by 3 ostrich plumes, runs towards the right, pursued by 9 winged flying bottles evidently aimed at the "cork rump" which fills out the back of her skirts
Description: Title from item.
Signed in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly)
MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 352 x 246 mm., on sheet 38 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Engravings England London 1777
Etchings England London 1777
Satires (Visual works) England 1777
Material: etching & engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Hairstyles
Skirts
Bottles
Clothing & dress
Subjects: Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Skirts
Bottles
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
England > London > 1777
England > 1777

Access: Public
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