Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Publication place and date inferred from those of the periodical for which this plate was engraved., Plate from: The macaroni and theatrical magazine. London : John Williams, Dec. 1772, p. 97., and Mounted to 24 x 15 cm.
Leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing in profile to the right. He holds a book in his right hand, a strap in his left. He wears a short, tightly curled wig, and a light flowered dressing-gown over dark clerical clothes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., and Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Decr. 7, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
Leaf 91. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Whole length portrait of a man standing in profile to the right. He holds a book in his right hand, a strap in his left. He wears a short, tightly curled wig, and a light flowered dressing-gown over dark clerical clothes."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772., Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "17" in upper right corner., Second of three plates on leaf 91., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Publish'd as the act directs Decr. 7, 1772, by MDarly, 39 Strand
"An elderly parson embraces indecorously an elderly woman who stands beside the bed where her husband sleeps. A dog watches them. The scene is a poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of a later state of the print. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: windows with diamond pattern -- Furniture: chairs -- Pets., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Marriage & married life., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 23 x 29., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Novemr. 25th, 1785, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
"An elderly parson embraces indecorously an elderly woman who stands beside the bed where her husband sleeps. A dog watches them. The scene is a poverty-stricken room with a raftered roof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from description of a later state of the print. Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 83., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Architectural details: windows with diamond pattern -- Furniture: chairs -- Pets., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior -- Marriage & married life., and Watermark: fleur-de-lis on a crowned shield.
Publisher:
Published Novemr. 25th, 1785, by S.W. Fores at the Caracature [sic] Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
Satire against corruption with an image of a huge automaton representing the new London University (later University College, London) tramples over greedy clerics, doctors, lawyers and the crown. Five lines of text below image: "I saw a vision, a giant form appeard, it's eys where [sic] burning lights even of Gas, and on its learned head it bore A Crown of many towers, It's Body was an Engine yea of steam it's arms where [corn?] and the legs with which it stode like unto presses that men called printers use, from whence felt ever and anon small Books that fed the little people of the Earth, It rose and in it's hand it tool a Broom to sweep the rubish [sic] from the face of the land, the Special pleaders & thier [sic] wigs also & the Quack Doctors also and the ghosts & those tha twhear Horns & the Crowns of those kigns that set themselv's above the laws & the Delays in Chancery it utterly destroy'd, likewiase it sweept from the Clergy every Plurality, Nevertheless the Lawyers & the Parsons & divers others kick't up a great dust!!!"
Description:
Title from text above image., Shortshanks is the pseudonym of Robert Seymour., Date from online British Museum catalogue., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"Interior, the Prince of Wales standing to left wearing chain and badge of the garter, right hand poised to put the ring on the finger of Princess Caroline Amelia, who kneels with hands crossed over her breast to right, a minister blessing them to right, an open book on a cushion in front of him, George III and Queen Charlotte seated in the background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Second state, with the Prince's fob added. For descriptions of the states as recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database, see Curator's comments for British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.1947., and Companion print to: The first interview of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 16th, 1795, by John Fairburn, No. 146, Minories, London
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830,, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,, George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820,, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818,, and Moore, John, 1730-1805,
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Chapels, Marriage, Weddings, Bishops, and Clergy
Title from caption above image., Publication date from British Museum catalogue., 'Price 6d.'--Below verse., Twenty lines of verse in two columns below image: When bold rebellion armd by Spain & France, does thro' the land with hasty strides advance ..., Temporary local subject terms: Bishop's mitre -- Reference to the Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-46., and Mounted to 32 x 25 cm.
Title from item., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877) v. i, no. 30., Numbered in lower right of plate: 30., and Temporary local subject terms: Weapons: Maces.
