The shuffling macaroni [graphic]

Description

Title: The shuffling macaroni [graphic]
Creator: H., J., active 1772, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [2 April 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. by MDarly, April 2nd, 1772, accor. to act, (39) Strand
Abstract: A man standing in profile and shown full-length walking to the right as he looks at himself in a hand-mirror. He wears a very tall wig, the queue tied in back with a very large bow, and a ruffled shirt. In his left hand he holds a tasselled cane
Description: Title etched below image.
Signed by unidentified printmaker "J.H."
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
"Who calls me a macaroni"--Text above image.
Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner.
For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5005 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupee wigs -- Tasselled canes -- Lockets.
First of three plates on leaf 72.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.7 x 12.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Edition: [State with volume number].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 72. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Wigs
Mirrors
Staffs (Sticks)
Subjects: Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Wigs
Mirrors
Staffs (Sticks)
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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