Macaroni courtship, or, The two insignificants [graphic].

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Title: Macaroni courtship, or, The two insignificants [graphic].
Alternative Title: Two insignificants
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd accord. to act, Feby. 1, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A couple in profile, half-length, both the woman on the left and the man on the right smile at each other. Their hair is piled high on their heads in an elaborate style
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Second of two plates on leaf 36.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 17.9 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 18 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 19 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 36. 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 (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Hairstyles
Wigs
Couples
Subjects: Dandies > British
Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Wigs
Couples
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

Access: Public
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