11.
- Creator:
- Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1 October 1771]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 724 771N
- Collection Title:
- Leaf 26. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c. Page 11. New London spy
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A man in profile showing his enormous belly, holding a stick and with two dogs slavering at a dead fowl in his pocket."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Initial letters of printmaker's name in signature form a monogram., State without plate number. Cf. No. 4641 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Temporary local subject terms: Constables -- Food: fowl -- T. Guttle., 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 34.8 x 24.2 cm, folded to 31 x 24.2 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark; mounted to 32 x 26 cm., and Mounted on page 49 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
- Publisher:
- Pubd. according to act of Parlt. Octr. 1st, 1771, by MDarly, engraver, No. 39 Strand
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Dogs, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The well fed English constable [graphic]