The sleepy macaroni dreaming for the good of his country / [graphic]

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Title: The sleepy macaroni dreaming for the good of his country / [graphic]
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. accorg. to act June 4th, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Abstract: A portly man (Stephen Fox, 2nd Lord Holland) sleeps in an arm-chair, whole length and facing right. He holds a book in his right hand
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 "14" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Bag wigs -- Furniture: Upholstered armchairs -- Horace Walpole's reference to the subject of the print: Yale Walpole v. 32, page 255.
Second of three plates on leaf 76.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.6 x 12.5 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 76. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Obesity
Sleeping
Wigs
Chairs
Books
Subjects: Holland, Stephen Fox, Baron, 1745-1774 > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Obesity
Sleeping
Wigs
Chairs
Books
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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