My-self [graphic].

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Title: My-self [graphic].
Alternative Title: Myself
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 1, 1774, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "A fashionably-dressed young man, smiling fatuously, walks towards the spectators down a straight grass ride cut through trees."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Four lines of verse below title: As I walk'd by my-self, I talk'd to my-self, and thus my-self said to me: Look to thy-self and take care of thy-self; for nobody cares for thee ...
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.
Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner.
For a reissue published by Robert Sayer, see no. 5265 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Young men.
First of two plates on leaf 48.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 25.3 x 17.9 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25.3 x 18 cm, on sheet 27 x 18 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 48. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

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