Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 October 1771]
Call Number:
771.10.01.03+ Impression 1
Collection Title:
Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
