A custom house nonpareil on a journey to Isleworth [graphic].

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Title: A custom house nonpareil on a journey to Isleworth [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: June 3d, 1774.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, 39 - Strand
Abstract: Full-length portrait of a man, standing in profile to the right, looking straight ahead while taking a pinch of snuff from a small snuffbox. He wears a queue wig and a tricorne, and he holds a cane under his right arm
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "V. 3" in upper left corner and "23" 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 55.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.8 x 17.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 55. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1774
Etchings England London 1774
Material: etching with rocker and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Snuff
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
Caricatures
Subjects: Snuff
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs
Caricatures
England > 1774
England > London > 1774

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