A satire on both the work of Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon, and his famous Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière as well as the women's fashion of dressing their hair in a high pyramid shape topped with ornate feathers
Alternative Title:
Male and female of a particular biped species, accurately described by Buffon in his History of Naturals
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in lower left corner with the monogram "IS"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Three caricatured women, with mountainous and feathered headdresses sit, feet in the air and hands clasped under their kness, floating down the Thames under the arches of a bridge, on their cork rumps. They are floating towards our right. At the extreme left three heads are blowing the wind that makes the ladies float. Five little ducks also appear in the lower left corner. This print may refer to the regatta at Richmond
Description:
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Three lines of text below title: 1 Prize. an entire new WIG, completely furnished with curls, cushion, feathers && and free admittance to all public amusements. 2 prize. a new pair of CORKS..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Headdress: female, 1776 -- Female costume: cork rump -- Birds: swans -- Regattas -- Arches of London bridge -- Winds.
A very fat woman on the left of the print faces her very thin counterpart on the right, in a room where long shadows indicate the morning hour. Both ladies wear the style of hat known as a calash (introduced in 1765), that on the left nearly round and the one on the right angular and ribbed. The woman on the left sits in an armchair with one foot on a stool as cats play in the bonnet dropped near her chair, while the woman on the right holds a fan and sits erect on a folding stool, her cork rump protruding behind her and a dog playing on her broad brimmed hat
Alternative Title:
Calash lady's and Calash ladies
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 11, V.2.
Wearing a fanciful approximation of classical garb, Andromache and Hector embrace each other in a sad farewell. Standing behind Hector on the right, a tearful man in 18th century dress holds a pike and a basket containing bottles. Behind Andromache on the left, a grim faced and tearful woman holds a naked baby who reaches for Hector's hand. Above the woman is a signpost on which is printed "A single-horse chaise" and further inscribed "one bird in hand's worth two in the bush, Mary Security", a phrase also illustrated by a hand holding a fat bird and two birds on a twig
Description:
Title from item., Signed (by engraver?) in lower left of plate: H[en] Ibb., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 49 V.2
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Mrs. Catherine Macaulay numbered 37 and of Dr. Thomas Wilson numbered 38.
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1776 p. 681., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784. and Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791.
A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of the stables
Alternative Title:
Tatter'd-sale
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "39" in upper left corner and "V. 1" in upper right corner., and For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Horse buyers, Horse trading, Clothing & dress, Auctioneers, and Horses
Leaf 8. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of the stables
Alternative Title:
Tatter'd-sale
Description:
Title etched below image., For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., On leaf 8., and With remnant of red wax seal on bottom edge of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Horse buyers, Horse trading, Clothing & dress, Auctioneers, and Horses
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 11, 1777.
Call Number:
777.04.11.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a landscape with trees in the rear, a young woman with extremely tall coiffure augmented at the top by 3 ostrich plumes, runs towards the right, pursued by 9 winged flying bottles evidently aimed at the "cork rump" which fills out the back of her skirts
Description:
Title from item., Signed in plate MD (i.e. Matthias Darly), and MD of publisher's name form a monogram.
