Leaf 64. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A macaroni miltary officer (possibly Lieutenant General Charles Horneck) carries a tasselled cane and wears a tasselled sword at his side. His queue wig is exaggerated in length and extends straight off his neck and reaches almost to his knees
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with additional numbering. For an earlier state, see no. 4711 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Text above image: Pray Sr. do you laugh at me., and Plate numbered "v. 1" in upper left corner and "24" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Novr. 6th 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Horneck, Charles, -1804.
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
A macaroni miltary officer (possibly Lieutenant General Charles Horneck) carries a tasselled cane and wears a tasselled sword at his side. His queue wig is exaggerated in length and extends straight off his neck and reaches almost to his knees
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., and Above image: Pray Sr do you laugh at me.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Novr. 6th 1771, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Name):
Horneck, Charles, -1804.
Subject (Topic):
Daggers & swords, Dandies, British, Staffs (Sticks), and Wigs
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Cf. No. 4635 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Costumes: masquerade -- Devil -- Musical instruments: oboe., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials GR below.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Pariament., Decr. 8th 1771, by MDarly, (39 Strand)
An astounded-looking elderly man peeks into a room where a young woman reposes on a couch. Kneeling in front of her is a young man who reaches up and draws with a piece of chalk two horns on her husband's portrait above them
Description:
Title from item., Eight lines of verse in two columns on both sides of title: To one alone I cannot constant be, because the life I love is to be free ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Cuckolds -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Letters: billets doux -- Furniture: couch.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Title from item., One line of text below title: Oh had we staid & said our pray'rs at home. Pope's Rape of the Lock., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Interiors: Drury Lane Theatre -- Riots: Wilkites vs. ministerialists, Drury Lane Theatre, March 3, 1770 -- Tickets sellers -- Ticket offices -- Lighting: lanterns -- Canes: tasselled canes -- Ministerialists -- Wilkites -- Playbills -- Propaganda -- Altered quotation from Rape of the lock, iv, 160, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Allusion to Much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Literature: Allusion to The ladies frolick by James Dance (James Love) (1722-1774) -- Allusion to A word to the wise by Hugh Kelly (1739-1777)? -- Allusion to William Pitt, Earl of Chatham ( 1708-1778) -- Allusion to David Garrick (1717-1779)., and Watermark: Fleur-de-lys.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Title engraved below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Trades: hairdresser -- Hairdresser's implements: curling tongs -- Furniture: secretaire -- Busts: Oliver Cromwell's bust -- Side chairs -- Pictures amplifying subject: Don Quixote attacking a windmill -- Maps: wall map of Iberian Peninsula -- Wall map of British Isles -- Map of Falkland Islands -- Politics: relations with Spain -- Dispute over Falkland Islands -- House of Commons: Speaker's warrant -- Allusion to Norton Fletcher, 1716-1789 -- Allusion to Brass Crosby, 1725-1793, Lord Mayor of London, 1771 -- Allusion to Sir Philip Francis, 1740-1818, suspected to be Junius -- Literature: allusion to Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616 -- Eyeglasses.
Publisher:
Printed for S. Sledge, Printseller in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1771?]
Call Number:
771.07.15.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Ladies absurdity
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Headdresses -- Naval officers -- Military uniforms: naval officer's uniform -- Trades: hairdressers -- Furnishings: mirrors -- -- Carpet -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Hairdressing implements: curling tongs -- Step ladders -- Naval instruments: quadrant., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Title etched below image., Publication place and date inferred from magazine for which this plate was engraved., Illustration to a letter to the editor signed 'S.P.', Plate from: The Oxford magazine. London : Printed for the authors, v. 6 (1771), p. 28., and Temporary local subject terms: Buildings: temples -- Temple of liberty -- Personifications: Liberty -- Magna Charta -- Bill of Rights -- Secret influence -- Sawyers -- Emblems: cap and staff of liberty -- Tools: saws.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792, Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793, and Norton, Fletcher, 1716-1789
Leaf 65. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A whole length profile figure of a man in a hat and military coat with facings. His hair stands out in a long, thin, stiffened queue. His right hand holds a tasselled cane which rests on his shoulder; his left is on the hilt of his sword."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Twenty more, kill'em
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 2" in upper left corner and "2" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms: Lieutenant's uniform -- Tasselled canes -- Queue wig -- Lieut. Alexander Murray, fl. 1768 -- Expressions of speech: Kill'em, Tiger., and Second of three plates on leaf 65.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly, accorg. to act, Decr. 1st, 1771, (39 Strand)
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Military officers, Staffs (Sticks), Daggers & swords, and Wigs