In an oval, a half-length portrait of James Poro (born Giacomo Poro), shown with his shirt open to reveal his conjoined twin growing out of his stomach, named Matthew or Matteo. They were born in Genoa, Italy. The second small body could function almost normally. If you hurt him, he would cry, and he could move a little bit. Both James and Matteo were baptized
Description:
Title etched on base in image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right edge., One line of text following subtitle: (see Gent. Mag. vol. XLVII, p. 424)., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Monsters: Poro, James and Matthew, 1686-1714.
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1581); as a child standing whole-length to front wearing dark cape, muff and dark hat with ribbon, small dog beside her at left, bird at right; winter landscape behind"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Manuscript note in upper right corner: "86.", and Mounted to sheet 666 x 471 mm.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 1st 1777, by John Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Lady Tyrconnel (daughter of Marquess of Granby) numbered 4, and the man with whom she had eloped, Charles Loraine Smith numbered 5.
Alternative Title:
Lady Tyrconnel and Charles Loraine Smith
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 page 65., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm, on board with pages 65-68 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Smith, Charles Loraine, 1751-1835. and Tyrconnel, Frances Manners, Lady, 1753-1792.
Full length depiction of an enormously fat gloved lady wearing a giant beribboned calash hat as she stands in an outdoor setting facing right. Huge curls of hair issue from beneath the hat, and her outer cloak, which is short enough to reveal two-tone shoes, is adorned with large bows and a floral pattern
Description:
Title from item., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 37, v. 2.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[11 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.11.02.1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two elderly ladies are seated facing each other, the one on the left extremely fat and the one on the right very thin. Both display the extravagantly tall hairstyles of the day, topped by ostrich plumes. They are each seated on a large cork which issues from a bottle beneath them, an allusion to the protruding "cork rumps" which support their skirts
Alternative Title:
Bottle companions
Description:
Title from item., Signed in plate MD., i.e. Matthias Darly., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Early state, without numbering, of no. 5439 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly April 11 1777, 39 Strand near York Buildings
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a woman identified only as the widow of a French hairdresser numbered 34 and of the Irish peer, William, 2nd earl of Bessborough (1704-93) numbered 35.
Alternative Title:
Kind keeper
Description:
Titles from text below images., Subject identified in the British Museum catalogue., and From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1776, page 625.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
Bessborough, William Ponsonby, 2d Earl of, 1704-1793.
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of Madame Le F__re numbered 10, and Sir John Saint Aubyn, numbered 11.
Alternative Title:
Cozened minor and Madame Le Fevre
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316., Subjects identified in British Museum catalogue., Burford identifies woman as Madame Le Fevre., From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and country magazine, 1777 page 177., and Mounted on board to 21 x 28, with pages 177-180 of the Magazine.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Subject (Name):
St. Aubyn, John, Sir, 1758-1839, and Le Fevre, Madame.
"Portrait seen half-length in profile to right left within oval frame, wearing embroidered dress with lace cuffs, shawl and her hair full and high, tied with ribbon; state with plate cut above publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4959., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 35 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Full length portrait of D'Eon dressed half as a man and half as a woman. The left side of the figure wears a full and elegantly styled dress, with hair piled high in the pyramidal fashion of the times. The right side of the image is in men's attire including a military coat, the cross of St. Louis, and a sword
Alternative Title:
Chevalier d'Eon
Description:
Title from item., An illustration from the London Magazine, vol. 46 p. 443., In plate above image: Lond. Mag. Sepr. 1777., and Soiled and stained at top of print.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810,
