This club was instituted & kept at Almacks & called the Macaroni Society [art original].

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Title: This club was instituted & kept at Almacks & called the Macaroni Society [art original].
Alternative Title: This club was instituted and kept at Almacks and called the Macaroni Society
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [1765?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: A thin man, dressed in macaroni fashion, stands in profile to the right, holding a cane in his right hand and a bouquet in his left hand; a sword hangs from his side. A child stands behind him, hat held out as if begging for money
Description: Titled by the artist in ink below image.
Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work.
Date from local card catalog record.
Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 88 x 53 mm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1765
Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink on brown laid paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Almack's (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Dandies
British
Staffs (Sticks)
Bouquets
Daggers & swords
Hats
Children
Beggars
Subjects: Almack's (London, England)
Dandies > British
Staffs (Sticks)
Bouquets
Daggers & swords
Hats
Children
Beggars
England > 1765
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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Citation: Henry William Bunbury, This Club was Instituted & Kept at Almacks & Called the Macaroni Society. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.