A macaroni miltary officer (possibly Lieutenant General Charles Horneck) carries a tasselled cane and wears a tasselled sword at his side. His queue wig is exaggerated in length and extends straight off his neck and reaches almost to his knees
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., and Above image: Pray Sr do you laugh at me.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Novr. 6th 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Horneck, Charles, -1804.
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Cf. No. 4635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Costumes: masquerade -- Devil -- Musical instruments: oboe., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Pariament., Decr. 8th 1771, by MDarly, (39 Strand)
Title from item., One line of text below title: Oh had we staid & said our pray'rs at home. Pope's Rape of the Lock., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Drury Lane Theatre -- Riots: Wilkites vs. ministerialists, Drury Lane Theatre, March 3, 1770 -- Tickets sellers -- Ticket offices -- Lighting: lanterns -- Canes: tasselled canes -- Ministerialists -- Wilkites -- Playbills -- Propaganda -- Altered quotation from Rape of the lock, iv, 160, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Allusion to Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Literature: Allusion to The ladies frolick by James Dance (James Love) (1722-1774) -- Allusion to A word to the wise by Hugh Kelly (1739-1777)? -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ( 1708-1778) -- Allusion to David Garrick (1717-1779)., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lys.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Title engraved below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdresser's implements: curling tongs -- Furniture: secretaire -- Busts: Oliver Cromwell's bust -- Side chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: Don Quixote attacking a windmill -- Maps: wall map of Iberian Peninsula -- Wall map of British Isles -- Map of Falkland Islands -- Politics: relations with Spain -- Dispute over Falkland Islands -- House of Commons: Speaker's warrant -- Allusion to Norton Fletcher, 1716-1789 -- Allusion to Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818, suspected to be Junius -- Literature: allusion to Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616 -- Eyeglasses.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
A girl in peasant dress shown full length holds a hurdy-gurdy or vielle suspended round her neck. She wears a neckless and pinned at her breast, a nosegay of flowers. Her face is in profile as she turns her head to the right away from the viewer
Description:
Title engraved below image., Printed on one sheet with: Madlle. Heinel in the character of a sultana., and Watermark: J Taylor.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside, as the act directs
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Musical instruments, Musicians, and Organ grinders
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.07.15.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Ladies absurdity
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Naval officers -- Military uniforms: naval officer's uniform -- Trades: hairdressers -- Furnishings: mirrors -- -- Carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Hairdressing implements: curling tongs -- Step ladders -- Naval instruments: quadrant., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from magazine for which this plate was engraved., Illustration to a letter to the editor signed 'S.P.', Plate from: The Oxford magazine. London : Printed for the authors, v. 6 (1771), p. 28., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: temples -- Temple of liberty -- Personifications: Liberty -- Magna Charta -- Bill of Rights -- Secret influence -- Sawyers -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Tools: saws.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. II and No. III, of Caroline Petersham, Lady Harrington, and Lord Barrington
Alternative Title:
Hostile scribe
Description:
Titles etched below images., In upper right corner: Vol. III., Dated by George: 1 February 1771., Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 3 (1771), p. 9., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm., on board together with four pages of text for which this plate is an illustration.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Barrington, William Wildman Barrington, Viscount, 1717-1793,
"A whole length profile figure of a man in a hat and military coat with facings. His hair stands out in a long, thin, stiffened queue. His right hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder; his left is on the hilt of his sword."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Alternative Title:
Twenty more, kill'em
Description:
Title etched below image, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '2' in upper right corner., For a later state with added volume numbering, see no. 4987 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms: Lieutenant's uniform -- Tasselled canes -- Queue wig -- Lieut. Alexander Murray, fl. 1768 -- Expressions of speech: Kill'em, Tiger.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly accorg. to act, Decr. 1st, 1771, (39 Strand)
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs
Leaf 65. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length profile figure of a man in a hat and military coat with facings. His hair stands out in a long, thin, stiffened queue. His right hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder; his left is on the hilt of his sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Twenty more, kill'em
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms: Lieutenant's uniform -- Tasselled canes -- Queue wig -- Lieut. Alexander Murray, fl. 1768 -- Expressions of speech: Kill'em, Tiger., and Second of three plates on leaf 65.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, accorg. to act, Decr. 1st, 1771, (39 Strand)
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs
