"In a panelled room without furniture, two figures in profile face each other in a minuet. On the left is an elderly man with a rather stiff manner, dressed in the fashion of the day, and wearing a toupet-wig with a black bag; he holds his hat in his ...
Leaf 51. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A small man in oversized clothes stands in profile in the foreground holding a walking stick and a wig at which he is looking pensively. Behind him is a small cottage-like building with a striped barber's pole mounted on the roof. In a large diamond p...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 11, 1773, by MDarly, Strand
Leaf 99. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing in profile looking to the left. He wears his own hair, a plain coat, riding breeches, and spurred boots. His left hand is in his breeches-pocket and under his arm is a riding-whip."--British Museum online catal...
Alternative Title:
Reverend macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accorg. to act Octr. 1st, 1773, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, English, Riding habits, and Whips
Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Published / Created:
[5 February 1772]
Call Number:
772.02.05.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A fashionably dressed woman sitting behind a table is taking a necklace out of a box; she has three large black spots on her face. She looks with disdain at her enraged husband in old-fashioned clothes and a nightcap, sitting next to her, his fists cl...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd 5th Feby. 1772 by W. Humphrey, St. Martin's Lane
" A grave-digger (l.) resting on his spade holds out in his left hand a decayed skull towards a skeleton-like man wearing an old-fashioned tie-wig, who is sitting on a rectangular tomb while he leans his right. elbow on another tomb at right angles to...
