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11.
The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]

Published / Created:
[1 January 1805]
Call Number:
805.01.01.05
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"An elderly, sharp-featured virago, with skinny neck and muscular arms, sits directed to the right, furiously kicking and shaking her left fist at the old-fashioned looking-glass which stands on a muslin-covered dressing-table. The glass has been shat...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st, 1805 by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Mirrors, Dressing tables, Corsets, Anger, Feathers, Draperies, and Bottles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The looking glass in disgrace [graphic]

12.
The protecting macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
Leaf 86. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) in shirt and breeches is being laced into stays by a shorter man who stands behind him. The taller man is knock-kneed and has some resemblance to the Duke of Grafton. On the ground is a chased goblet to which a label is attached, "Dupli...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act Octr. 9, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Corsets, and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The protecting macaroni [graphic].

13.
The protecting macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[9 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.4 plate 24
Collection Title:
Leaf 86. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A man (right) in shirt and breeches is being laced into stays by a shorter man who stands behind him. The taller man is knock-kneed and has some resemblance to the Duke of Grafton. On the ground is a chased goblet to which a label is attached, "Dupli...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. accordg. to act Octr. 9, 1772, by MDarly, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Corsets, and Drinking vessels
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The protecting macaroni [graphic].

14.
The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 724 776D
Collection Title:
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 waistc...
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

15.
The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 October 1772]
Call Number:
772.10.22.03
Collection Title:
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 waistc...
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

16.
The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 October 1772]
Call Number:
Folio 72 771 D37 v.5 plate 9
Collection Title:
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 waistc...
Alternative Title:
Whalebone macaroni
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act, Octr. 22, 1772, by M. Darly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hairstyles, Staffs (Sticks), Wigs, Neckties, Corsets, and Occupations
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

17.
Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

Published / Created:
[ca. 1777] and [printed ca. 1812]
Call Number:
777.00.00.10+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In an elegantly decorated bedroom, a young woman with hair piled high in the fashion of the 1770s, holds tightly to a bedpost, while a man (her servant or husband) tugs on her stay-laces, and is in turn held around his waist by a female servant, who i...
Alternative Title:
Fashion before ease
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Bowles & Carver ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Dogs, Monkeys, Beds, Bedrooms, and Tug of war
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, Fashion before ease [graphic]

18.
Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].

Published / Created:
[4 November 1777]
Call Number:
777.11.04.01+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Corsets, Fashion, Wife abuse, Couples, Shoemakers, Workshops, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Furniture, and Interiors
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Tight lacing, or, The cobler's wife in the fashion [graphic].