The optical contrast [graphic].

Description

Title: The optical contrast [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [16 January 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. according to act, Jany. 16th, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "Satire: two men peering at each other, one a macaroni using a lorgnette, the other a conventional elderly gentleman using a telescope."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered '3' in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Wigs: queue -- Male dress: old-fashioned, ca. 1730 -- Canes -- Quizzing glasses.
First of two plates on leaf 30.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 17.6 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 20 x 26 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Wigs
Staffs (Sticks)
Telescopes
Lorgnettes
Subjects: Dandies > British
Wigs
Staffs (Sticks)
Telescopes
Lorgnettes
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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