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Published / Created:: [12 July 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:: "Satire on Joseph Banks, shown as a well-dressed man with elaborately curled hair, ass's ears and a large feather in his hat, balances on two globes - one lettered "Antartick Circle", the other "Artick Circle" - while he reaches towards a butterfly with a bat-shaped fly-catcher in each hand."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:: Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Text below title: I rove from pole to pole, you ask me why, I tell you truth, to catch a fly., Plate numbered "17" in upper left corner and "v. 3" in upper right corner., For an earlier state, see no. 4695 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Male costume: Macaroni hats with ostrich feather., and Second of three plates on leaf 77.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly accor. to act, July 12th, 1772, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Subject (Topic):: Naturalists, Butterflies, Butterfly nets, Dandies, British, Globes, Hats, and Feathers
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The fly catching macaroni [graphic]

Published / Created:: [12 July 1772]
Call Number:: Folio 72 771 D37 v.3 plate 17
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Satire on Joseph Banks, shown as a well-dressed man with elaborately curled hair, ass's ears and a large feather in his hat, balances on two globes - one lettered "Antartick Circle", the other "Artick Circle" - while he reaches towards a butterfly with a bat-shaped fly-catcher in each hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title from caption below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Text below title: I rove from pole to pole, you ask me why, I tell you truth, to catch a fly., Plate from vol. III: Macaronies, characters, caricatures &c. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "17" in upper left corner.
Publisher:: Pub. by MDarly accor. to act, July 12th, 1772, (39) Strand
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain.
Subject (Name):: Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Subject (Topic):: Naturalists, Butterflies, Butterfly nets, Dandies, British, and Globes
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The fly catching macaroni [graphic]

Published / Created:: [after 1947]
Call Number:: Poster0292
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Alternative Title:: An exhibition... Fighting against poliomyelitis
Description:: Title from item., Translated title supplied by curator., Date derived from founding date of printer., At upper right: Eric., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: Permild & Rosengreen, København
Subject (Topic):: Poliomyelitis, Boys, Nurses, and Butterflies
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Udstillingen... Kamp mod børnelammelse [graphic]

Creator:: Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1717]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B935 805 folder 5 Box 1
Collection Title:: [Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two watercolor drawings, one depicting three butterflies/moths and a beetle, and the other depicting three insects (a moth on a leaf, a butterfly, and a crane fly).
Alternative Title:: Three insects
Description:: Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly page 7 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Topic):: Butterflies, Insects, and Biological illustration
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Butterflies and beetle] [art original] / M.S.M. [Three insects] / M.S.M.

Creator:: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1788]
Call Number:: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title assigned by curator., Probably by Rowlandson. See simillar frontispieces by Rowlandson for Pindar's poems in the British Museum catalogue, nos. 7051, 7186, 7431., Date of publication based on that of the volume in which the print appears., Frontispiece to: Pindar, P. Sir Joseph Banks and the Emperor of Morocco. London : Printed by G. Kearsley ..., [1788], Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 73 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820
Subject (Topic):: Butterflies and Butterfly nets
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Man with butterfly nets] [graphic].

Creator:: Merian, Maria Sibylla, 1647-1717, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1717]
Call Number:: Folio 75 B935 805 folder 6 Box 1
Collection Title:: [Scrapbook of drawings].
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Two watercolor drawings: the drawing on top, three moths and a cockroach(?), and the drawing below depicting two butterflies, a moth, and a fly (?).
Alternative Title:: Three butterflies, one bee
Description:: Titles from local catalog card., Each drawing signed in pencil in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Place of production based on artist's countries of residence in Europe; date of production based on artist's death date., Formerly page 11 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806]., Matted to 49 x 37 cm., and Original case shelved separately.
Subject (Topic):: Butterflies, Insects, and Moths
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Three moths, one beetle] [art original] / M.S.M. [Three butterflies, one bee] / M.S.M.