The macaroni captains [graphic].

Description

Title: The macaroni captains [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [17 September 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accorg. to act, Sepr. 17th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Abstract: "Two men in coats with military facings are having a violent fight with some geese. A goose (left) is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of one, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword which is in his left hand. The other (right) is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks, one lies dead on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered '11' in upper right corner.
First of two plates on leaf 32.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.4 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 21 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 32. 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 ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Military uniforms
Geese
Fighting
Daggers & swords
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Dandies > British
Military uniforms
Geese
Fighting
Daggers & swords
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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