Macaronies drawn after the life [graphic].

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Title: Macaronies drawn after the life [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. accord. to act Decr. 1, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "Two scenes on one plate: on the left a macaroni smiling standing at a table, in the other a skeleton leaning against a funerary monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "V. 2" in upper left corner and "22" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Dice-box and dice -- Furniture: Hanging bookshelf -- Pictures amplifying subject: Horse racing -- Books: Allusion to Weber and Hoyle -- Allusion to Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies -- Allusion to Charlotte Hayes, procuress -- Building: Country church -- Tools: Spade.
First of two plates on leaf 44.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.8, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 19 x 25 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 44. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1773
Etchings England London 1773
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Gambling
Playing cards
Tables
Skeletons
Shovels
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: Dandies > British
Gambling
Playing cards
Tables
Skeletons
Shovels
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > 1773
England > London > 1773

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