The fly catching macaroni [graphic]

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Title: The fly catching macaroni [graphic]
Contributor: Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [12 July 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly accor. to act, July 12th, 1772, (39) Strand
Abstract: "Satire on Joseph Banks, shown as a well-dressed man with elaborately curled hair, ass's ears and a large feather in his hat, balances on two globes - one lettered "Antartick Circle", the other "Artick Circle" - while he reaches towards a butterfly with a bat-shaped fly-catcher in each hand."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Text below title: I rove from pole to pole, you ask me why, I tell you truth, to catch a fly.
Plate numbered "17" in upper left corner and "v. 3" in upper right corner.
For an earlier state, see no. 4695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male costume: Macaroni hats with ostrich feather.
Second of three plates on leaf 77.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.6 x 13 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Edition: [State with volume number].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 77. 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): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Subject (Topic): Naturalists
Butterflies
Butterfly nets
Dandies
British
Globes
Hats
Feathers
Subjects: Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 > Caricatures and cartoons
Naturalists > Great Britain
Butterflies
Butterfly nets
Dandies > British
Globes
Hats
Feathers
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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