A fashionably dressed young woman stands before the mirror on her dressing table, a box of pins in her hand. Standing behind her on her huge bustle or "cork rump", her bespectacled hairdresser arranges her mountainous headdress, consisting of rows of curls on the sides and topped by rows of vegetables with ostrich plumes at the summit. A maid carrying a basket of feathers and vegetables approaches on the right
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd the act directs June 9, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Skirts, Dressing tables, Interiors, Women domestics, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 3. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Couples awkwardly dance in a hall, the men wearing tricornes and the women wearing hats or elaborate hairstyles. Two musicians are seen in the background on the right; sconces line the far wall
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 3.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1, 1776, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dance, Couples, Hats, Hairstyles, and Sconces
An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Clothes chests, Crutches, Physicians, and Women
An old woman wearing a white apron and bonnet sits in a chair, with two canes at her side. She is bandaging the hand of a tearful young woman, while another young woman looks on. A cat sits in the ledge beneath a casement window
Description:
Title from item., Numbered '199' in lower right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 15.2 x 11.3 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm., and Year in imprint statement has been partially erased from sheet and final two digits have been altered in ms.
Publisher:
Publish'd 20th June 1787 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Cats, Clothing & dress, Clothes chests, Crutches, Physicians, and Women
Leaf 6. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a closed carriage made visible by being bisected longitudinally. In it two young ladies of pleasing appearance sit face to face in profile, apparently on the floor, or on very low seats, to make room for their monstrous mounds of hair. These are decorated with feathers, flowers, vegetables, &c. as in British Museum Satires No. 5370. One (right) holds a paper inscribed "Pantheon 3d Subscription", the other holds a fan. The roof of the carriage is ornamented with two ducal coronets."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Vis-à-vis bisected, or, The ladies coop and Ladies coop
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state, with "Strand" added at end of imprint statement. For an earlier state lacking this publisher's street address, see no. 5373 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., Temporary local subject terms: ?Devonshire, Georgiana (Spencer) Cavendish, Duchess of, 1757-1896 -- Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford, 1717-1797, prints, NYPL 116 -- Interior of vis-à-vis -- Females headdress, 1776 -- Female costume, 1776: Theatre dress -- Ducal coronets -- Subscription tickets: 'Pantheon 3d Subscription' -- Theatres: Allusion to Pantheon, No. 359 Oxford Street., and On leaf 6.
Depicts Charles James Fox, rising out of his chair to reach with outstretched arms for a crown which descends on a cloud from the left. On the floor is a dice box, and in Fox's pocket may be seen a roll of papers marked A Bill for ref[orming the] East India [Company]. A quotation from Macbeth is present beneath the image, which is a commentary on Fox's ambition as evinced by his proposed India Bill
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by T. Cornell, Bruton Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Crowns, and Clothing & dress
William Pitt, in a dramatic pose, reaches up with his right hand for a sword presented to him by three cherubs encouraging him to defend King and country. With his other hand he indicates a volume inscribed, "Locke on the human understanding" on the table behind him. Above the table hangs a portrait of Lord Chatham. Members and supporters of the North-Fox coalition look on through an open window, gathered under a flag labeled "The Harmonic Society."
Description:
Title from item., Under title: "Third sketch"., and Mounted to 41 x 29 cm.
Publisher:
Published Feby. 18, 1784, as the act directs by S. Fores No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and England
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806., Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806., Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816., and Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Tables, Daggers & swords, and Clothing & dress
On the left stands a vertically divided figure of Lord Hood on its right and Sir Cecil Wray on its left, the ministerial candidates in the Westminster election. Lord Hood holds an ensign's flag with an incomplete St. Andrew's cross and a broken scepter on it. Sir Cecil holds a spear with a magpie sitting on its top. From the right of the image, the King, with the scepter in his hand and the crown suspended above his head, drives two reluctant electors toward the figure of the candidates, vowing that the election results will be as he commanded
Alternative Title:
Magpye candidates and Magpie candidates
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W. Stafford, Oxford Mart
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Wray, Cecil, Sir, 1734-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Political elections, Scepters, and Clothing & dress
A scale is depicted in which Lord North, dressed as a washerwoman, is weighed down with the assistance of Fox (a fox on the cross beam). Or the right, Lord Shelburne, depicted as a Jesuit in monastic garb wearing the ribbon of a Knight of the Garter and holding a money bag signed "Blessings of Peace" in his right hand, sits in the upper pan of the balance, with his tombstone below. The attacks of the North-Fox coalition eventually led to Shelburne's stepping down in February 1783
Alternative Title:
Up with the Jesuit
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1783 by A. Killingbeck, Dover Street
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, and North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792
Subject (Topic):
Scales, Laundresses, Monks, Foxes, Obesity, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 88. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistcoat, cravat, and ruffled shirt. Probably a stay-maker."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
