Park-character [graphic].

Description

Title: Park-character [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [24 May 1777]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Novr. 24, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "Standing whole length profile portrait of a man in an oval enclosed in a rectangle. He walks from left to right, his head thrown back, his stomach projecting. He wears spectacles, a looped hat, a large tie-wig, and holds a tasselled cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Provenance: Jenny Tudor Pictures; April 2018.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures
Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Eyeglasses
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
Subjects: Eyeglasses
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
England > 1776
England > London > 1776

Access: Public
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