Satire: a young couple seated together on a sofa as they drink coffee, a plate beside her on a table. The husband on the right has his arm around his bride as they look at each other fondly
Alternative Title:
Honeymoon
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 April 1777]
Call Number:
777.04.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Two sedan chairs, borne by liveried chairmen, are about to pass each other on a cobbled street. In the chair on the left, the roof has been elevated to accommodate the enormous, ostrich-plume topped headdress of a lady. The head of a man is visible in...
A satire on both the work of Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de Buffon, and his famous Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière as well as the women's fashion of dressing their hair in a high pyramid shape topped with ornate feathers
Alternative Title:
Male and female of a particular biped species, accurately described by Buffon in his History of Naturals
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Three caricatured women, with mountainous and feathered headdresses sit, feet in the air and hands clasped under their kness, floating down the Thames under the arches of a bridge, on their cork rumps. They are floating towards our right. At the extr...
A very fat woman on the left of the print faces her very thin counterpart on the right, in a room where long shadows indicate the morning hour. Both ladies wear the style of hat known as a calash (introduced in 1765), that on the left nearly round and...
Wearing a fanciful approximation of classical garb, Andromache and Hector embrace each other in a sad farewell. Standing behind Hector on the right, a tearful man in 18th century dress holds a pike and a basket containing bottles. Behind Andromache on...
Leaf 8. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of t...
Alternative Title:
Tatter'd-sale
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Horse buyers, Horse trading, Clothing & dress, Auctioneers, and Horses
A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of t...
Alternative Title:
Tatter'd-sale
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Horse buyers, Horse trading, Clothing & dress, Auctioneers, and Horses
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 11, 1777.
Call Number:
777.04.11.01+ Impression 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a landscape with trees in the rear, a young woman with extremely tall coiffure augmented at the top by 3 ostrich plumes, runs towards the right, pursued by 9 winged flying bottles evidently aimed at the "cork rump" which fills out the back of her s...
An old woman in street attire and a hat is seated on a chair, her left hand raised in admonishment, her right on the hip of a young girl who stands before her weeping. The girl is flanked on either side by an angry man gesticulating with his walking s...
Alternative Title:
Miss willing to be in the ton
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Printed for Ino. Smith, No.35, Cheapside as the act directs
A fashionably dressed young woman stands before the mirror on her dressing table, a box of pins in her hand. Standing behind her on her huge bustle or "cork rump", her bespectacled hairdresser arranges her mountainous headdress, consisting of rows of ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Publish'd the act directs June 9, 1777, by J. Lockington, Shug Lane, Golden Square
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Hairstyles, Hairdressing, Skirts, Dressing tables, Interiors, Women domestics, and Clothing & dress
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a woman identified as the widow of Lord A.H., (on the left and numbered 28), and her alleged lover on the right, a Colonel C. of the Guards, (numbered 29).
Alternative Title:
Complying Colonel
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
An elderly lady with towering coiffure topped with feathers and ribbons holds tightly to the post of a canopy bed, as her equally old and ugly maid, bracing a foot on the lady's cork rump, tightens her stays
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. 5 Marh. 1777 by W. Humphrey, Gerrard Street, Soho ...
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
March 1, 1777.
Call Number:
777.03.01.04+
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
A small-waisted lady with towering coiffure topped by a beribboned hat stands in her boudoir holding onto post of canopy bed, as her footman, bracing his foot on her rump, tightens her stays. A decorative carpet is visible underfoot, and her dressing ...
In a cobbler's workshop a shoemaker has seized his wife by the arm and is about to beat her with a leather strap. Her partly laced stays are being tightened by the weight of the cobblers hammer. She wears her hair in the monumental fashion, and her hi...
Alternative Title:
Cobler's wife in the fashion and Cobbler's wife in the fashion
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published Novr. 4th 1777 by Wm. Hitchcock No.5 Birchin Lane
