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1. A Scotch reel [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- July 11, 1776.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 5. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Two couples dancing a reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable, see British Museum Satires No. 5370, &c. The man on the left is short, ungainly, and very fat, he walks rather than dances. The other man dances with energy, one arm raised. All wear gloves."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., State without plate number. For a variant state with "5" etched in upper left corner, see no. 5374 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and On leaf 5.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Hairstyles, Dance, and Couples
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Scotch reel [graphic].
2. A new mode of digestion [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.07
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fat man, his wig turned upside down, sleeps in his chair, with a punch bowl, bottle and glass on the table by his elbow. Balanced on his enormous stomach is a see-saw, weighted down at the right by a diminutive boy and with a tiny girl seated on the raised end. On the wall behind him is a partly visible picture of someone playing bowls. A dog sleeps on the floor beneath the man's chair
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on sheet 23 x 19 cm.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. as the Act directs 23.1776 by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Seesaws, Wigs, Tobacco pipes, Bowls (Tableware), Tableware, Interiors, Tables, Obesity, Eating & drinking, Sleeping, Furniture, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A new mode of digestion [graphic]
3. Anne Clifford Countess of Cumberland aet. 81 / [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mazell, Peter, active 1761-1797, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery; aged 81; half length, to left, veil over head; coats of arms at top corners; with false title."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Publication information from the volume in which the print was published., Plate from: Pennant, T. A tour in Scotland: MDCCLXXII. Part II. London : Printed for Benj. White, 1776., Numbered "XLIV" in upper left corner and "358" in upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 118 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12., and Title modified in brown ink by Horace Walpole, with "Dorset and Pembroke, only daughter of the Earl of" written in the space between first and second lines of text below image.
- Publisher:
- Benjamin White
- Subject (Name):
- Pembroke, Anne Clifford Herbert, Countess of, 1590-1676,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Anne Clifford Countess of Cumberland aet. 81 / [graphic]
4. Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [6 July 1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 11. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An enormously fat gentleman, with a footman stationed at his rear, brandishes a whip as he drives his phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The signpost behind him reads "to Salthill" with a mile marker on the right reading "XIX miles". A crest of a donkey's head adorns the side of the carriage
- Alternative Title:
- Flying buck
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and On leaf 11.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, July 6, 1776, 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Carriages & coaches, Whips, Servants, and Traffic signs & signals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]
5. Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [6 July 1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.07.06.01.2+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An enormously fat gentleman, with a footman stationed at his rear, brandishes a whip, as he drives his phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The signpost behind him reads "to Salthill" with a mile marker to the right of the print XIX miles. A crest of a deer or donkey head adorns the side of the carriage
- Alternative Title:
- Flying buck
- Description:
- [State with plate number]., Title from item., Reissue, with added plate number., Initial letters "MD" of publisher's name form a monogram., Numbered '12' in upper left of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by MDarly, July 6, 1776, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Carriages and carts, Carriages & coaches, Coach drivers, Horses, Clothing & dress, Obesity, and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Billy Blubber, or, The flying buck going to the enchanted castle / [graphic]
6. Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- published as the act directs [1776]
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.13+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satire on the "macaroni' hairstyles for women: a man seated on a bench (left) in a park stares at two women with fashionable macaroni hair pieces as they walk past him, left to right. The two women are accompanied by a lap-dog and a black page boy
- Alternative Title:
- Female fashionable follies
- Description:
- Title etched below image., First published with the title: The fashionable dresses for the year 1776., Date erased from this impression. Date from British Museum catalogue., and In the lower left corner of the print: No. 345.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Benches, Boys, Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, and Servants
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bob Blunt in amaze, or, Female fashionable follies [graphic].
7. Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [19 April 1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- America's head dress and America's headdress
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Second of two plates on leaf 56.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- United States and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Bunkers Hill, or, America's head dress [graphic].
8. Clara H-d P- M- Esqr. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- Mar. 1, 1776.
- Call Number:
- 776.03.01.05 Impression 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress Clara Hayward numbered 4 and of Philip Medows numbered 5.
- Alternative Title:
- Clara Hayward and Philip Medows Esqr
- Description:
- Titles from text below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, page 65., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
- Publisher:
- Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. near St. Johns Gate
- Subject (Name):
- Medows, Philip, 1708-1781. and Hayward, Clara.
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Clara H-d P- M- Esqr. [graphic]
9. Cupid's tower [graphic] .
- Published / Created:
- [1 March 1776]
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looking. She wears the fashionable 'full-dress' of the period."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of verse below title: Fair tresses Man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair., and First of two plates on leaf 56.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. March 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, and Cupids
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cupid's tower [graphic] .
