Title from text in image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Title page from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773., and Back fly leaf and back cover in same folder.
Leaf 96. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man wearing a furred livery gown and a double-peaked fool's cap with bells. His head is turned slightly to the right. In his left hand is a watchman's rattle. He is Sir Watkin Lewes, a recently knighted alderman and city patriot, Sheriff of London 1772-3."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which this plate appears., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 96., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, City council members, Fools' caps, and Robes
Leaf 96. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man wearing a furred livery gown and a double-peaked fool's cap with bells. His head is turned slightly to the right. In his left hand is a watchman's rattle. He is Sir Watkin Lewes, a recently knighted alderman and city patriot, Sheriff of London 1772-3."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Publisher and date of publication from the volume in which this plate appears., Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
M. Darly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lewes, Watkin, Sir, 1740?-1821
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, City council members, Fools' caps, and Robes
Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The standing figure of a man whose head is that of a double-headed animal, to the left an ass, to the right a bear. With his left hand (which also holds a whip) he leads an elephant whose head and trunk appear from the right. His right hand rests on the pinnacle of a Chinese pagoda ornamented with dragons. Suspended round his neck is the figure of a bear showing that he has the Swedish order of the Polar Star."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,...' which had just appeared, and opens 'Knight of the Polar Star'; it is both a political satire and an attack on Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening and on the Chinese pagoda which he had built at Kew for the Princess Dowager of Wales ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Chevalier de l'Étoile Polaire
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Four lines of verse below image: From north to the south I came forth right, by favor in duplici modo a knight ..., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., For an earlier state without numbering, see no. 5157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: Ass -- Buildings: Chinese pagoda., and Second of three plates on leaf 97.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, March 7, 1773, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Subject (Topic):
Monsters, Animals, Elephants, Donkeys, Bears, and Pagodas
Leaf 97. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The standing figure of a man whose head is that of a double-headed animal, to the left an ass, to the right a bear. With his left hand (which also holds a whip) he leads an elephant whose head and trunk appear from the right. His right hand rests on the pinnacle of a Chinese pagoda ornamented with dragons. Suspended round his neck is the figure of a bear showing that he has the Swedish order of the Polar Star."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,...' which had just appeared, and opens 'Knight of the Polar Star'; it is both a political satire and an attack on Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening and on the Chinese pagoda which he had built at Kew for the Princess Dowager of Wales ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Chevalier de l'Étoile Polaire
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Four lines of verse below image: From north to the south I came forth right, by favor in duplici modo a knight ..., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "11" in upper right corner., For an earlier state without numbering, see no. 5157 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Temporary local subject terms: Animals: Ass -- Buildings: Chinese pagoda., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18 x 13 cm, mounted to 33 x 26 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated in upper left corner resulting in loss of volume number.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, March 7, 1773, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796
Subject (Topic):
Monsters, Animals, Elephants, Donkeys, Bears, and Pagodas
"The standing figure of a man whose head is that of a double-headed animal, to the left an ass, to the right a bear. With his left hand (which also holds a whip) he leads an elephant whose head and trunk appear from the right. His right hand rests on the pinnacle of a Chinese pagoda ornamented with dragons. Suspended round his neck is the figure of a bear showing that he has the Swedish order of the Polar Star. He wears tartan trousers."--British Museum online catalogue and "A satire on Sir William Chambers, illustrating in detail Mason's 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers, Knight,...' which had just appeared, and opens 'Knight of the Polar Star'; it is both a political satire and an attack on Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening and on the Chinese pagoda which he had built at Kew for the Princess Dowager of Wales. Chambers is said to have been of Scottish descent, he was born in Sweden and was made Knight of the Polar Star by the king of Sweden."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Artist and printmaker names are unidentified pseudonyms., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Verse etched below image: From North to the South, I came forth right, by favor in duplici modo a Knight, in primis an Ass, secundus a Bear, the one is a Fact, the other is a Fair., and Plate from vol. VI: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand, Novr. 1, 1773.
Publisher:
Pub'd by MDarly March 7, 1773, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796 and Mason, William, 1725-1797.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd 23d March 1773.
Call Number:
Bunbury 773.03.23.01 Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Three men playing musical instruments: A fat man (left) sitting in a chair plays a viol da gamba, perhaps a portrait of Abel, see British Museum Satires No. 5163. A thin man in profile to the left plays a flute. He wears a bag-wig, laced coat, ruffled shirt and sword. A piece of music protrudes from his coat pocket. Behind, a stout man plays a horn."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Artist attribution to Bunbury from British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Abel, Karl Friedrich, 1723-1787, Fischer, Johann Christian, 1733-1800, and Punto, Giovanni, 1746-1803
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on page 7 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[3 February 1773]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Volume 1, page 7. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 45. Bunbury
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two young women standing at the corner of a customs' house with a sign lettered 'Qui si paga la gabella', one carrying a basket, in profile on the right, reaching out one arm to the other, who has a staff on the crook of her arm and her hands joined under her apron, both wearing hats slanted over their foreheads, gowns with laced bodices and fichus, with a dog in the right foreground and view of mountains behind to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 45 of: Bunbury album., 1 print : etching and drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 18.0 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs, 3d Feby. 1773, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street
Leaf 100. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
"Whole length caricature portrait of a lawyer walking in profile to the left. He is obese with several chins; his head is shaved and he carries a large wig. In his left hand is a rolled document. He wears a voluminous gown which rests on the ground."--British Museum online catalogue., Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner., Third of three plates on leaf 100., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.4 x 12.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 21th [sic], 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Lawyers, Obesity, Wigs, and Robes
