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
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
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
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
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing ...
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
Opposite half-title page. Journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Margery in stays and petticoat seated before her dressing-table holds the monstrous erection on her head. Her father, Inkle, seated on a chair (right), watches in astonishment. A maid stands by an open door (left) holding the cock which has been robb...
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
