Seven figures walking toward the right, the Duchess of Kingston leading the way and uttering the words "By God and ...", with three fashionably dressed young women behind her, one carrying a bottle labelled "Cordial." Following them are a very corpulent clergyman, a physician wearing wig and sword, and an apothecary carrying a large and ornate syringe on his shoulder
Description:
On lower right beneath design: "Price 1 sh.", Attributed to Mortimer in the British Museum catalogue., and Earlier state, without inscription under the design. Cf. No. 5362 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Wigs, Pharmacists, Physicians, and Clergy
Full length depiction of a fashionably dressed woman, a small dog under her left arm. Her head is topped by an enormous heart-shaped coiffure, garlanded with flowers and beads and surmounted by three ostrich feathers
Description:
Title from item. and Place of publication from publisher's entry in Maxted, The London book trades.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to Act of Parlt. May 15 1776 by J. Lockington Shug Lane ...
Two men playing shuttlecock, an obese clergyman on the left and a gentleman in pigtail queue on right. Their airborne "shuttlecock" is a woman with the huge feathered coiffure of the day and the fashionable "cork rump" or bustle visible beneath her skirts
Alternative Title:
Miss shuttlecock
Description:
Title from item., R.S. monogram in image may refer to Richard Sneer (i.e., R. B. Sheridan) or to the identity of the print's subject., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Verse beneath title: Ladie likes [sic] shuttle-cocks are now array'd, the tail is cork'd & feather'd is the head., and Verso with contemporary ms. inscription.
Publisher:
Pubd. by MDarly
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816.
Subject (Topic):
Badminton (Game), Hairstyles, Badminton, and Clothing & dress
Reaction to the Battle of Long Island and the capture of New York by British forces. North and Mansfield stand on a platform, the former holding up a dispatch from Howe. Bute and George III stand behind them. A distressed Wilkes stands in the left foreground, with a tearful woman on the ground near him holding the cap of Liberty. Two ministers are depicted on the right, one being Sandwich, the other probably Germain. The seacoast is visible in the background with ships, some sinking
Alternative Title:
Patriots in the dumps
Description:
Title from item., Above image in plate: Lond. Mag. Nov. 1776., and From the London Magazine v, 45, p. 599 of Nov. 1776, although British museum catalogue gives date as Dec. 1, 1776.
Publisher:
Publisher not indentified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., and United States
Subject (Name):
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of, 1705-1793., North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792., Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792., George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820., Sandwich, John Montagu, Earl of, 1718-1792., Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, and Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785.
Subject (Topic):
Long Island, Battle of, New York, N.Y., 1776, Colonies, History, and Campaigns
Leaf 7. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Rear view of a woman's elaborate hairstyle which culminates in a huge bonnet with ostrich plumes. A collection of fruits and vegetables is nestled among her curls, and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
Alternative Title:
View of the back settlements
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 7.
Rear view of a woman's elaborate hairstyle which culminates in a huge bonnet with ostrich plumes. A collection of fruits and vegetables is nestled among her curls, and feathers issue from within the monumental coiffure
Alternative Title:
View of the back settlements
Description:
Title from item., Reissue, with plate number added., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., Numbered '11' in upper left of plate., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Standing whole length profile portrait of a man in an oval enclosed in a rectangle. He walks from left to right, his head thrown back, his stomach projecting. He wears spectacles, a looped hat, a large tie-wig, and holds a tasselled cane."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:
Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 10., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
Leaf 10. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A lady with an enormous coiffure surmounted by hat with huge ostrich feathers brandishes a long whip as she drives her phaeton behind a pair of diminutive horses. The carriage is elevated on very high springs, and on its side bears a ducal coronet (a possible allusion to the Duchess of Devonshire) and the motto "Swift".
Alternative Title:
Phaetona, or, Modern female taste and Modern female taste
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Sheet mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Devonshire, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of, 1758-1824.
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Women, Social life and customs, Social conditions, Horses, Clothing & dress, Hats, Hairstyles, Carriages & coaches, and Coach drivers
A lady, seated and in fashionable dress wears a towering coiffure, which a French hairdresser adjusts her curls from behind while standing on the topmost rungs of a ladder. In front of the woman a naval officer sights through an octant to the top of her hairdo
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett No. 53 Fleet Street as the Act directs
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairdressing, Astronomical instruments, Ladders, Wigs, Hairstyles, and Clothing & dress
