Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (three-quarter length) in profile to the right. with the enormous coiffure of 1776-7 grotesquely exaggerated. Her hands are in a muff. Her inverted pyramid of hair supports three quasi-circular redoubts surrounded by cannon on which troops are fighting. On each is a flag large out of all proportion to the soldiers. There are also a train of artillery, and a number of tents. All the men in the redoubts are dressed as British soldiers but are firing point-blank at each other; their three flags are decorated respectively with an ape, with two women holding darts of lightning, and with a goose."--British Museum online catalogue and "A companion print to British Museum Satires No. 5335. Evidently intended to satirize the fighting at Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775. For similar satires on hair-dressing see British Museum Satires No. 5378, apparently a parody of this print."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
America's head dress and America's headdress
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Year of publication from the British Museum catalogue., and Second of two plates on leaf 56.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 19 by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and England
Subject (Topic):
Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775, History > Revolution, 1775-1783, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Muffs, Soldiers, British, Flags, Apes, and Geese
"A lady stands at her dressing-table (right), her hair in an enormous pyramid decorated with feathers torn from a peacock, an ostrich and a cock. A young girl wearing a hat holds the peacock by a wing; another wearing a cap tugs hard at one of its tail feathers (which are very unlike peacock's feathers). An ostrich (left), which has lost most of its tail feathers, is about to pluck out those which ornament the lady's hair. A cock stands in the foreground (right), having lost almost all its tail feathers, many of which lie on the floor. A black servant wearing a turban stands on his mistress's right, handing feathers from a number which he holds in his left hand. The lady, who faces three-quarter to the right, is elaborately dressed in the fashion of the day. Her pyramid of hair is decorated with lappets of lace and festoons of jewels as well as with feathers. She wears large earrings, a necklace with a cross, her bodice is cut very low, and her elbow sleeves have lace ruffles. A pannelled wall forms the background."--British Museum online catalog
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Printmaker identified as Philip Dawe by Dorothy George. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress Clara Hayward numbered 4 and of Philip Medows numbered 5.
Alternative Title:
Clara Hayward and Philip Medows Esqr
Description:
Titles from text below images., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, page 65., and Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. near St. Johns Gate
Leaf 56. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A lady (half length) in profile to the left with an enormous pyramid of hair in the fashion of the day. On the broad summit of the pyramid lies a miniature cupid fitting an arrow to his bow and about to aim in the direction in which the lady is looking. She wears the fashionable 'full-dress' of the period."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Two lines of verse below title: Fair tresses Man's imperial race ensnare, and beauty draws us with a single hair., and First of two plates on leaf 56.
Leaf 1. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The lettering of the title is in an oval, the dedication in a circle beneath the oval, both being enclosed by a continuous border of ornament. The border is surrounded by scrolls of conventional ornament; from the two lowest scrolls, on each side of the dedication, hang two medallion bust portraits of Garrick, one (left) in profile to the left, the other (right) in profile to the right. These resemble the decoration of the Society of the School of Garrick worn by Charles Bannister in a half length mezzotint portrait."--British Museum online catalogue and "This title-page was used for composite volumes of caricatures bound in boards which include prints not only before but after 1776. It may have been originally issued in connexion with one or more of the series of folio prints issued by Darly, possibly to subscribers to the very numerous series which appeared in at least two volumes between 1776 and 1778 , and perhaps in 1779 ..."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched in center of image. and On leaf 1.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776, according to act of Parlt., (39 Strand)
In a rural landscape with trees in the right rear of the print, Death in the form of a skeleton stand with his scythe and reaches down to touch an elderly white-bearded woodman who has fallen in the grass. The latter points to the burden of sticks which he has dropped, his axe lying on the ground as well
Description:
Title etched between two columns of verse in six lines each below image., Numbered in plate '339' in lower left corner., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix: Key to the dates of the series of mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles., Verse in plate based on Aesopian fable: A poor old woodman trudg'd along the road bending beneath the double load of faggots and of age. Alas! he cry'd. is there like me a wretch beside in all the country round? Quite spent and almost out of breath, he throws his burden on the ground, bemoand his fate and call'd on Death. Come Death, o come, and end my pain. Death came, and ask'd, what would you have of me? Only that you would be so kind said he, to help me with my bundle up again., and Publication date erased from print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, publish'd as the act directs
"Portrait, head and shoulders, of an old man with loose, curling hair to his shoulders, and a plain white collar, three-quarter to right, looking down to centre."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 1 f. 3 i. by 1 f. 6 i. in height., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate 30 in the first volume of: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia ... London : J. & J. Boydell, 1788., and On same sheet: Innocent the Tenth.
Publisher:
Published Sepr. 30th, 1776, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of actress Elizabeth Hartley numbered 13 and of actor William "Gentleman" Smith in 17th century costume numbered 14.
Alternative Title:
Kitely
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, p. 316., Subjects identified by British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776 p. 233.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Hartley, Elizabeth, 1750?-1824. and Smith, William, 1730-1819.
Full length profile portrait facing left of Elizabeth Chudleigh during her trial for bigamy. She wears a black dress with a hood and holds papers in each hand. An upholstered armchair is behind her
Description:
Title from item., Printmaker from Chaloner-Smith., and Print trimmed into plate mark, repairs to lower corners, inlaid, folded.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788.
Subject (Topic):
Bigamy, Trials (Bigamy), Clothing & dress, and Chairs
