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.
Title from item., Printmaker from unverified data from local card catalog record., Numbered "340" in the lower left corner of the print., and Temporary local subject terms: Costume: female, 1776 -- Prostitutes -- Furniture: bed & tester -- Chair -- Carpets -- Bible: Proverbs VI, 25 & 26.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"A scene from the Judgement of Midas; on the left, Apollo standing, holding a lyre in his right hand; on the left, Marsyas seated, playing Pan's flute; next to him, King Midas seated; behind them, three Nymphs; in an oval frame with palm leaves; a banner at top and another at bottom; after Cipriani; illustration to the second or fourth volume of 'History of Music' by Charles Burney (London: 1776)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini, a concert of mvsick
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. C,3.1., Added title from later impression with cartouche added. Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 16 in Folio 75 B28 799, and on page numbered 5 in Folio 75 B28 804., On leaf numbered 18 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others., 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 10.7 x 11.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A scene from the Judgement of Midas; on the left, Apollo standing, holding a lyre in his right hand; on the left, Marsyas seated, playing Pan's flute; next to him, King Midas seated; behind them, three Nymphs; in an oval frame with palm leaves; a banner at top and another at bottom; after Cipriani; illustration to the second or fourth volume of 'History of Music' by Charles Burney (London: 1776)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini, a concert of mvsick
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. C,3.1., Added title from later impression with cartouche added. Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 16 in Folio 75 B28 799, and on page numbered 5 in Folio 75 B28 804., On page numbered 5 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and 1 print : engraving on wove paper ; sheet 11.6 x 12.7 cm.
"A scene from the Judgement of Midas; on the left, Apollo standing, holding a lyre in his right hand; on the left, Marsyas seated, playing Pan's flute; next to him, King Midas seated; behind them, three Nymphs; in an oval frame with palm leaves; a banner at top and another at bottom; after Cipriani; illustration to the second or fourth volume of 'History of Music' by Charles Burney (London: 1776)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini, a concert of mvsick
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. C,3.1., Added title from later impression with cartouche added. Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 16 in Folio 75 B28 799, and on page numbered 5 in Folio 75 B28 804., and On leaf numbered 17 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
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 robbed of its tail-feathers, some of which lie on the ground, others adorn Margery's head-dress. A cat miaows at the cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Printmaker identified as William Hibbart in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1855,1208.65. Formerly attributed to William Hassel by Mary Dorothy George., Later state, with etched shading lines added in the background. Earlier state is a plate from: Anstey, C. An election ball. Bath : S. Hazard, 1777. Cf. No. 5386 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 5., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on leaf 23 x 14 cm., and Mounted opposite half-title page in Horace Walpole's copy of: Boswell, J. The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. London : Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1785.
Publisher:
Pub. by C. Anstey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Corsets, Dressing tables, Roosters, Feathers, and Cats
Portrait of John Mann, Secretary of the Hand-in-Hand Fire Office from 1730 until his death in 1776; half-length, looking slightly right; wearing a long wig and an unbuttoned jacket
Description:
Title from annotation on mount., Date of publication based on sitter's death date., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on wove paper to 18 x 13 cm., and Annotated by Thomas Kirgate in ink on mount: Mr. Mann, of the Hand in Hand Fire Office.