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., and Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "21" in upper right corner.
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
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., Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below. Initials partially trimmed., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.8 x 12.5 cm., on sheet 19 x 13 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
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
Two physicians greet each other. The one on the left has a large belly and holds his hands in his pockets. The one on the right is smaller and thinner and holds his hat in his hand. From a piece of paper protruding from his pocket reads: "Pitts[...] Salutarian."
Description:
Title etched below image. and Date conjectured from costume.
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.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date conjectured from period of printer's activity., Later, altered version of no. 6153 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Print based on "A journeyman parson going on duty".
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clergy, England, Horseback riding, Taverns (Inns), and Clothing & dress
Lord Hertford is depicted outside his house, receiving Charles James Fox (shown with a fox's head). Lady Hertford and seven of her children all have rat's heads and stand obsequiously attentive to their guest who ignores them
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 33 x 45 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 26th, 1782, by J. Browning, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Hertford, Francis Seymour Conway, Marquess of, 1719-1794 and Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806
A well-dressed couple under a tree in a park with steeples in the background. The lady in a very large hat steps over a stile while a gentleman watched from behind a hedge. Her umbrella leans against the gate post
Alternative Title:
Damon and Delia
Description:
Title from item. and Plate numbered '203' in lower right corner.
Publisher:
Published 12th May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
A figure of a man, divided vertically, shown on the left as a skeleton holding a spade and standing next to a tombstone inscribed with biblical and literary quotations, and on the right as a richly and fashionably dressed gentleman standing in a landscaped park. Next to him lie a dice box and dice, playing cards, tickets to masquerades, a broken framgment of an EO table, billiard balls and cues, a pedigree, and a book inscribed "Rambler" [i.e., The rambler's magazine, first published in 1783]. In the background stands a garden folly
Alternative Title:
Essay on man
Description:
Title from item., Artist suggested in Sotheby's catalog., Date of publication inferred from date of the Bowles & Carver partnership formed after the 1793 death of Carington Bowles. Cf. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers who were at work in England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1557-1775 / by H.R. Plomer. [London] : Bibliographical Society, 1977., Originally published ca. 1760. Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 3792., Plate numbered '519' in lower left corner., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 348 x 245 mm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
