Cupid's tower [graphic] .

Description

Title: Cupid's tower [graphic] .
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 March 1776]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. March 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: "A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looking. She wears the fashionable 'full-dress' of the period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Two lines of verse below title: Fair tresses Man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair.
First of two plates on leaf 56.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.9 x 17.6 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1776
Etchings England London 1776
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Hairstyles
Clothing & dress
Cupids
Subjects: Hairstyles > England > 1770-1780
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Cupids
England > 1776
England > London > 1776

Access: Public
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