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1. A macaroni general [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- July 22d, 1772.
- Call Number:
- 772.07.22.01.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A sour looking old man with an enormous belly, wearing a long, thin queue and a tricorne hat, stands in profile to the right. In the background, an equestrian statue in a rear view represents a similarly looking rider with a baton in his left hand. An inscription on the plinth, encircled in a wreath, reads 'Guliel. [...] Duc de Cum. victor de rebel 1745.'
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '14' in upper right corner., Subject identified by Horace Walpole on his impression of this print, now in the Pierpont Morgan Library, as William Strode, Lt. General of 62nd Foot-Guard, with the statue he erected to the Duke of Cumberland., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Military officers: general -- Statues -- William Strode, 1698-1776., Watermark: countermark IV., Note on verso of this impression: HW's [i.e., Horace Walpole's] impression in PM [i.e., Pierpont Morgan], iii.67 verso, 277, has: "General Stroude [sic], with the statue he erected to William, Duke of Cumberland, in Cavendish Square.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in partial loss of plate number.
- Publisher:
- Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- William Augustus, Prince, Duke of Cumberland, 1721-1765
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A macaroni general [graphic]
