The city tonsor [graphic].

Description

Title: The city tonsor [graphic].
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [1 July 1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accordg. to act of Parlt., July 1st, 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: A macaroni carries a wig frame with a two-tailed lawyer's wig or a 'scratch' wig and a catogan wig
Description: Title etched below image.
Reissue with added numbering. For an earlier state lacking volume number, see no. 4672 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner.
First of three plates on leaf 58.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 15.2 x 10.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.4 x 10.7 cm, on sheet 24.6 x 15.1 cm
Edition: [State with volume number added].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 58. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1771
Etchings England London 1771
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Barbers
Dandies
British
Wigs
Subjects: Barbers
Dandies > British
Wigs
England > 1771
England > London > 1771

Access: Public
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