The academic mac [graphic].

Description

Title: The academic mac [graphic].
Alternative Title: Academic macaroni
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1774]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Abstract: Full-length view of a caricature of a man (a dandy), standing and facing left, with his hands in his pockets; a hat with tassel covers his hair worn in an elaborate plait. He wears a long coat over a spotted vest and breeches, checked stockings, and low shoes with buckles
Description: Title etched below image.
Possibly engraved after a 1773 drawing by W. Hutchinson with the same title and nearly identical design in reverse; Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1865,1014.459.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Third of three plates on leaf 105.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 13 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 45 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 105. 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 1774
Etchings England London 1774
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain
England
Subject (Topic): College teachers
Clothing & dress
Dandies
British
Students
Hairstyles
Mortarboards (Caps)
Subjects: College teachers > Great Britain > Caricatures and cartoons
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Dandies > British
Students > British
Hairstyles
Mortarboards (Caps)
England > 1774
England > London > 1774

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