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1. A [four dice] macaroni gambler [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- July 2d, 1772.
- Call Number:
- Folio 724 776D
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 77. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Whole length portrait of a man with a dejected expression; his head is turned in profile to left. In his right hand is a money bag, and in his left a paper: "Scotch Bill for 10,000L". The four dice indicate that he is Alexander Fordyce, the most active partner in the firm of London bankers, Neale, James, Fordyce, and Down; he absconded in 1772
- Alternative Title:
- Fordyce macaroni gambler and Macaroni gambler
- Description:
- Title etched below image; four dice are depicted, suggesting the words "four dice" or the name "Fordyce"., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "16" in upper right corner., and First of three plates on leaf 77.
- Publisher:
- Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Fordyce, Alexander, 1729-1789
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, and Gamblers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A [four dice] macaroni gambler [graphic].
2. A [four dice] macaroni gambler [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- July 2d, 1772.
- Call Number:
- Folio 72 771 D37 v.3 plate 16
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Whole length portrait of a man with a dejected expression; his head is turned in profile to left. In his right hand is a money bag, and in his left a paper: "Scotch Bill for 10,000L". The four dice indicate that he is Alexander Fordyce, the most active partner in the firm of London bankers, Neale, James, Fordyce, and Down; he absconded in 1772
- Alternative Title:
- Fordyce macaroni gambler and Macaroni gambler
- Description:
- Title etched below image; four dice are depicted, suggesting the words "four dice" or the name "Fordyce"., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "16" in upper right corner., and For a later state with additional numbering, see no. 5016 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
- Publisher:
- Pub. accor. to act by MDarly, Strand
- Subject (Name):
- Fordyce, Alexander, 1729-1789
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, and Gamblers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A [four dice] macaroni gambler [graphic].
