The dignifyd clerical macaroni [graphic].

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Title: The dignifyd clerical macaroni [graphic].
Alternative Title: Dignified clerical macaroni
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [6 October 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accorg. to act, Octr. 6, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: An obese bishop, in a hunting jacket worn on top of a short black smock, advances cautiously from the left on a partridge on the right, which is trailing its wing. He is being encouraged in his progress by his gamekeeper who stands in the background pointing to the bird
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Plate numbered '19' in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Bishops -- Hunting -- Game keepers -- Fowl.
First of two plates on leaf 34.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 25.3 cm, on sheet 19 x 25.3 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 34. 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
Watermarks (Paper) G R.
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Clergy
Game bird hunting
Rifles
Gamekeepers
Partridges
Subjects: Dandies > British
Clergy
Game bird hunting
Rifles
Gamekeepers
Partridges
England > 1772
England > London > 1772
G R.

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