In a landscape setting, two young women fashionably attired, and with their elaborate hairstyles adorned with ostrich plumes, flee towards the left pursued by two angry and plucked ostriches. The foremost bird lunges at the feathers on the head of one of his victims, who wards him off with her fan while the lady's dog recoils at his approach
Alternative Title:
Feathered fair in a fright
Description:
Title from item., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, v. 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Numbered in plate: 357., and Date erased from this impression?
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles ... No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Fashion, Hairstyles, Clothing & dress, Ostriches, Animal attacks, and Dogs
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 May 1777]
Call Number:
777.05.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Shown half length, a fashionably dressed woman faces right, her enormous hair occupying most of the image. At the top of her hair is a formal flower garden surrounded by hedges and tended by a diminutive gardener with a rake. On the sides are sausage-like curls and several trailing garlands of flowers
Description:
Title engraved below image., Signed in image by engraver: MD, i.e. Matthias Darly., and Numbered in plate at top: 15, V.2.
Publisher:
Pub. by MDarly May 1, 1777 where may be had Bath caricatures
Profile head of a woman facing left with her elaborate hair style occupying the upper two thirds of the print. Her monumental coiffure is decorated with vegetables, carrots and parsnips in particular, while from the top protrude a bunch of asparagus, a pair of scales containing potatoes and herbs reminiscent of then-fashionable ostrich plumes, and trails of hanging pea-pods for ribbons
Description:
Title from item., Trimmmed within plate mark and torn at corners., Signed in lower left of image by the engraver(?) MD, i.e. Matthias Darly, and below image by the artist(?) [Miss] Bath on the right., Publisher's initials "MD" form a monogram., British Museum catalogue suggest a date of publication: July 11, 1777., and Numbered in plate at top: 16, V.2.
A lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile sits at a table opposite a clergy man (Dr. Wilson) as she writes with a quill pen. The walls are lined with full bookshelves separated in the middle by a fireplace with a mantelpiece on which sits a bust of "Alfred rex". Both figures wear the same enormous hair as in British Museum no. 5441
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., In black ink plate numbered "2" added to upper right corner in ink., Mrs. Macauley and Dr. Wilson also appear in another Mattina Darly satirical print. See number 5441 in v. 5 of British Museum catalogue: A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world. [London] : Pub. May 1, 1777 by M Darly 39 Strand., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary annotations in pencil in lower margin: Mrs. M[...?]ly ; Dr. Wilson.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1777, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
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 the chair on the right
Alternative Title:
Capital conceit
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and MD of publisher's name forms a monogram.
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., Signed in lower left corner with the monogram "IS"., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
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 extreme left three heads are blowing the wind that makes the ladies float. Five little ducks also appear in the lower left corner. This print may refer to the regatta at Richmond
Description:
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Three lines of text below title: 1 Prize. an entire new WIG, completely furnished with curls, cushion, feathers && and free admittance to all public amusements. 2 prize. a new pair of CORKS..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Headdress: female, 1776 -- Female costume: cork rump -- Birds: swans -- Regattas -- Arches of London bridge -- Winds.
