A young man with a large nosegay in his lapel, holding a tasselled walking stick in his left hand and facing right wears the oversized shoe buckles and enormous buttons of the day, as well as a round hat with the brim held up on the sides by bands looped around a large button on the top
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Title varies slightly from that given in British Museum catalogue: "I'm the thing..."., and Numbered in plate at top: 23, V.2.
Title from caption below image., Text below title: Size of the picture, 2 f. 1 i. by 2 f. 6 1/2 i. high., Etched coat of arms below image bearing the motto: Fari quae sentiat., Plate XL from: A set of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in the collection of ... the empress of Russia. London: J. & J. Boydell, 1788, v. 1., and On same sheet: Francis Halls.
Publisher:
Published May 1st, 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside
Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
Alternative Title:
Cork rump
Description:
Title from item., State without plate number., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., On leaf 2., and 1 print : etching & engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 35.3 x 25 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Leaf 2. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
In outdoor setting with a lake in the background, a full length view of young lady facing right with her enormous heart-shaped coiffure topped by a hat trailing long ribbons behind. Her dress, bearing several layers of ruffles, is extended in the back by a huge bustle, forming a resting place on which reposes a small lap dog
Alternative Title:
Cork rump
Description:
Title from item., State without plate number., and Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram.
Publisher:
Pub. Jany. 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Fashion, Skirts, Dogs, Hats, and Clothing & dress
Title engraved below image., Plate from: Liber veritatis, or, A collection of two hundred prints / engraved by Richard Earlom from the original drawings owned by the Duke of Devonshire. London: Boydell and Co., 1777., Josiah Boydell (1752-1817), English artist and publisher., and Probably one of the set owned by Horace Walpole and later dispersed. See A.T. Hazen, Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no 3669.
Publisher:
Published March 25th, 1777 by John Boydell engraver in Cheapside London
Title from caption below image., Text below title: E tabula Guidonis Reni, in Pinacotheca Domini De Montriblou armigeri conservata., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Watermark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt.
Subject (Name):
Cleopatra, Queen, consort of Juba II, King of Mauretania, 40 B.C.-
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 109. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Intermediate state of the plate, after additional drypoint shading added but before title changed. For an earlier state with less drypoint shading, see no. 4730 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4. For a later state with the title "Damn Mambrino", see no. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication from a brief mention of the print on page 278 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Gout -- Horse racing -- Horses: Becephalus., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
Bretherton, James, approximately 1730-1806, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1777]
Call Number:
Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Page 109. Bunbury album.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on betting on horses: a fat man seated in a chair looks angrily to right, a dog sits beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Earliest state of the plate, before additional drypoint shading added and before title changed. For a later state with the title "Damn Mambrino", see no. 4731 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Date of publication from a brief mention of the print on page 278 in v. 5 of the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., Temporary local subject terms: Gout -- Horse racing -- Horses: Becephalus., and Mounted on page 109 of: Bunbury album.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
June 17, 1777.
Call Number:
777.06.17.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Seven profile portraits or caricature heads, 3 in ovals, only the upper center one tentatively identified by George as Lord Surrey, later Duke of Norfolk. Others include military officers, a dissenting clergyman, and a man wearing a bag wig
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name form a monogram., Imperfect, cropped within plate mark., and Signed MD, probably Matthias Darly in lower left plate,
Three woman and a man advance from the left with a blanket on which to toss an unsuspecting artist who is seated at the right side of the print. All display the excessive hair styles of the period. The individuals with the blanket appear to be characters from a print which hangs on the wall behind them, "The back-side of a front row" (British Museum cataloge 5430), who have come to punish the artist for his caricatures. The artist holds in his hand "Miss Shuttle cock" (British Museum catalogue 5376) which also bears the monogram RS, thereby identifying the artist as Richard Sneer. Another print on the wall, entitled "Lex talionis", depicts a person being tossed in a blanket
Alternative Title:
Lady's revenge
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., Artist identified in British Museum catalogue as Richard Sneer, possibly Richard Brinsley Sheridan., Quotation beneath design: Heus bone, tu palles? pers., and Annotated with contemporary pencilled identification of subjects above design.
