Leaf 16. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Three men examine a curious head, which the man on the left is lifting off a low pedestal. The head has hollow eyesockets, is missing the nose, but has a moustache and wears what purports to be a crown. In the middle of the picture the man who faces us wears a brocaded coat, the star and ribbon of the Order of the Bath[?]. The fat man on our right is a portrait of Francis Grose, antiquarian and draughtsman. He holds a magnifying glass in his right hand and what looks like a small carved animal [possibly an armadillo?] in his left hand over the head
Alternative Title:
Connoisseurs
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Printseller's announcement following imprint statement: ... where may be had the greatest variety of comic prints, by several ladies, gentlemen, and the most humourous artists., One line of text below title: The head is undetermined, some taking it for Julius Caesar, some for Holifernes, other for an antideluvian [sic] law giver &c., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., On leaf 16., and 1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25.2 x 35.4 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. according to act of Parlt., Sepr. 1th [sic], 1771, by MDarly, engraver, (39) Strand ...
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Walking staves -- Spy glasses., Watermark in center of sheet., and Mounted to 25 x 18 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Food, Prosperity, Staffs (Sticks), and Hand lenses
Leaf 78. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A satirical portrait of an elegant young man, whole length in profile facing left, reading through a glass at a book on which is printed the alphabet. Probably a representation of Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk
Alternative Title:
Illiterate macaroni of twenty-one learning his A.B.C.
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "20" in upper right corner., and Second of three plates on leaf 78.
Publisher:
Pub. accordg. to act by MDarly, Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1739-1779
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Hand lenses, Books, and Wigs
Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two soldiers; on the left, a middle-aged man who has lost an eye, an arm and a leg; on the right, a young man peering at the other through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numberd "V. 2" in the upper left corner and "11" in the upper right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms -- Spying glasses -- Wooden legs., and Watermark, partially trimmed: Strasburg bend with initials L V G below.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1773, accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Veterans, Hand lenses, Eye patches, Amputees, and Peg legs
Leaf 30. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two soldiers; on the left, a middle-aged man who has lost an eye, an arm and a leg; on the right, a young man peering at the other through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Plate numberd "V. 2" in the upper left corner and "11" in the upper right corner of plate., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Military uniforms -- Spying glasses -- Wooden legs., Second of two plates on leaf 30., and 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 24.7 cm, on sheet 44.4 x 27.5 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. May 1, 1773, accord. to act by MDarly, 39 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Soldiers, Veterans, Hand lenses, Eye patches, Amputees, and Peg legs
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next her father, a yokel in a smock-frock who is addressed by a fat bawd. The woman puts her hand on his shoulder, saying, "Its very lucky I met with you my honest Man if she behaves well she shall be promoted to the service of a Duke". He answers, "Very lucky indeed I'se Woundily Obliged to your Ladyship. My Dame always said as how Bet was cut out for Zarvice of your great Volkes." The wagoner is depositing in the road the corded box of Elisabeth Maybush; he looks up at Old Q, saying, "ah! I knew he'd dart out like an Old Spider at a Fly". A fashionably dressed young woman walks past the railings of 15 Piccadilly, the lower part of the house forming a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Women: country girls -- Procuresses -- Wagoners -- London: 15 Piccadilly -- Quizzing glasses -- Horse whips., and Watermark: Strasburg bend with initials C & S below.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
"Queensberry (left) leans from the steps of his Piccadilly house, to leer through a double spy-glass (as in British Museum Satires No. 9082) at a buxom young woman who has just descended from a country wagon (right). She stands on the pavement next her father, a yokel in a smock-frock who is addressed by a fat bawd. The woman puts her hand on his shoulder, saying, "Its very lucky I met with you my honest Man if she behaves well she shall be promoted to the service of a Duke". He answers, "Very lucky indeed I'se Woundily Obliged to your Ladyship. My Dame always said as how Bet was cut out for Zarvice of your great Volkes." The wagoner is depositing in the road the corded box of Elisabeth Maybush; he looks up at Old Q, saying, "ah! I knew he'd dart out like an Old Spider at a Fly". A fashionably dressed young woman walks past the railings of 15 Piccadilly, the lower part of the house forming a background."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Queenborough novelist
Description:
Title from item., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., Temporary local subject terms: Women: country girls -- Procuresses -- Wagoners -- London: 15 Piccadilly -- Quizzing glasses -- Horse whips., Subject identified on mat below image., Watermark: Curtels & Sons., 1 print : etching ; plate mark 26.6 x 28.7 cm, on sheet 29 x 32 cm., and On laid paper, hand-colored, matted to 47 x 63 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1798, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of, 1724-1811
Subject (Topic):
Prostitutes, Hand lenses, Farmers, Obesity, Carts & wagons, and Whips
"A complicated design: advocates for religious toleration in a church, the pulpit occupied by Priestley, Price, and Lindsey. The central figure is Price, to whom the clerk standing below has passed up in a cleft stick a paper inscribed: 'The Prayers of this Congregation are desired for the Success of the patriot Members of the national Assembly now sitting in France'. Price takes the paper, and, raising his left hand sanctimoniously, says: "And now Let us fervently pray for the Abolition of all unlimited and limit[ed] Monarchy, for the Annihilation of all ecclesiastical Revenues and Endowments, for the Extinction of all Orders of Nobility and all rank and Subordination in civil Society and that Anarchy and Disorder may by our pious Endeavours prevail throughout the Universe - See my Sermon on the Anniversary of the Revolution" (see BMSat 7629, &c). Priestley leans over the left edge of the pulpit, his right arm raised; flames issuing from his mouth expand into four columns of smoke inscribed respectively 'Atheism' (smaller than the others), 'Deism', 'Socinianism', 'Arianism'. This blast strikes an angel carrying a cross; he flies out of a window (left), looking over his shoulder at Priestley with an expression of horror. Through the window is also seen a church steeple, being pulled down by a rope. Seated in a pew below is Fox (left) who looks up at the preacher, smiling; a similar column of smoke issues from his mouth and rises towards Priestley, inscribed 'Hear hear hear'. Lindsey leans over the right side of the pulpit, holding out 'A Table of the Thirty nine Articles' in a frame, this he tears to pieces. The back of the pulpit, above Price's head, is ornamented with an inverted and irradiated triangle containing the letters 'PPL', the initials of the three preachers. Above it is suspended a marquess's coronet with Lord Lansdowne's beehive crest. On the sounding-board are (left) two books: 'Priestley on civil Government' and 'Price on civil Liberty'. Beside them hangs from the roof a striped flag inscribed 'America' (Price's 'Observations on civil liberty . . .' (1776) had encouraged the Declaration of Independence, see BMSat 5644). On the books stands a small demon. Another demon, wearing the steeple-crowned hat of the puritans of the Commonwealth, sits on an open book (right) inscribed 'a Sermon on the Anniversary of the glorious Revolution'. Beneath the pulpit is a pew running across the church from left to right and containing the clerk's desk. In this sits Fox (left); facing him in profile to the left is Dr. Abraham Rees looking through a large magnifying-glass at a large open volume inscribed 'Bacons liber Regis' and 'Cantuar'. On the clerk's desk is a paper: 'Ye are desired to take Notice That a Vestry will be held on Tuesday to take into Consideration some necessary Reforms both in the Church and State'. Behind and between these two is a shadowy head, partly obliterated by the smoke issuing from Fox, identified as Sir Henry Hoghton. Next him is a woman with the closed eyes and upturned face of an enthusiast; she holds out an open book: 'Margt Nicholson her Book' (see BMSat 6973, &c). Seated in profile to the right is Dr. Kippis. Standing beside him is Lord Stanhope, smiling, his head turned in profile to the left. He tears in half a paper inscribed: 'Acts of Parliamt for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in ye Church and Administration of the Sacraments'. Beneath his elbow is a paper: 'Heads of a Bill for the Abolition of Tithes and other ecclesiastical Endowm[ents]'. In front of the pulpit the central figure is an exciseman standing with his back to the pulpit and looking over his shoulder at Stanhope with a smile. An ink-bottle is attached to his coat, under his arm is a book inscribed 'Excise'. His folded hands rest on the head of a cane, the tip of which is in a chalice which stands at his feet. Under his foot is a paper: 'Order for the Ministration of the holy Communion'. He is gauging a Communion cup, and is evidently Thomas Paine. Next him (right) in back view, kneeling, is a bishop, with enormous lawn sleeves; he is identified by Miss Banks as Edward Law, Bishop of Carlisle, but an open book in front of him is inscribed 'Watson Tracts', suggesting that he is Watson of Llandaff, cf. BMSat 7419. In the foreground on the left a kneeling man is flinging out the contents of an open chest on which are a bishop's escutcheon, and a female figure with a cross and chalice, probably representing religion. He throws out a large book: 'The Book of Common Prayer' to join a book of 'Homilies'. Beside this lie a mitre, a crozier, a chalice, a communion plate with bread at which rats are nibbling, a paper: 'The Communion of Saints, &c.' Looking over the shoulder of this despoiler of the Church is a bearded Jew, his hands raised in admiration, saying, "O vat fine plaat I vil give you de Monies for it Sar." On the right and in profile to the left sits a soldier, with the lank hair and upward gaze of the enthusiast; he holds his sabre by the scabbard. In his right hand is a steeple-crowned hat. Behind him sits a shadowy worshipper, full face, with upturned head and clasped hands. In the foreground on the extreme right a beadle is seated on the floor asleep. His hat is inscribed 'Oliver Condable St James'. Beside him are a dog and an open book: 'Killing no Murder a Sermon for the 30th of January'. Above the back of a pew on the extreme right is part of the back of a wig, identified as that of the Lord Mayor. A large mace is beside it, and a pillar surmounted by the Royal Arms: the lion is headless and in place of the crown is a puritan's steeple-crowned hat. Through a doorway inscribed 'Sanctum Sanctor[um]' is a three quarter length portrait in an oval frame of Oliver Cromwell. From a gallery in the upper right corner of the design, a ruffianly looking man leans over with a clenched fist, saying, "No Test no Bishops". In his left hand is a paper: 'The Rights of the Protestant Dissenters vindicated a Sermon by Jos Priestley.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., First two letters of printmaker's signature form monogram., Eleven lines of verse below image in two columns, one on either side of title: From such implacable tormentors, fanatics, hypocrites, dissenters ..., Temporary local subject terms: Religious dissenters -- Reference to America -- Allusion to French Revolution -- Magnifying glasses -- Religious reforms -- Excisemen -- American flag -- Reference to Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 -- Acts: Repeal of the Test and Corporation Act, March 2, 1790., 1 print : etching on wove paper ; plate mark 50.2 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 50.6 x 35.7 cm., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark; mounted to 56 x 37 cm.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Cornell
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804, Price, Richard, 1723-1791, Lindsey, Theophilus, 1723-1808, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805, Rees, Abraham, 1743-1825, Hoghton, Henry, Sir, 1728-1795, Kippis, Andrew, 1725-1795, Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, Earl, 1753-1816, Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809, Ellenborough, Edward Law, Baron, 1750-1818, Watson, Richard, 1737-1816, and Nicholson, Margaret, approximately 1750-1828
Subject (Topic):
Jews, Flags, Clergy, Architecture, Military uniforms, British, and Hand lenses
Title from item., Companion print to his "Young ladies" published also in 1798., Temporary local subject terms: Old men -- Furniture: garden bench -- Literature: Chesterfield, Philip Dorner Stanhope, Letters -- Quizzing glasses -- Male dress: spencer., and Watermark: John Hall 1805.
A group of fashionably dressed elderly gentlemen engage in a range of activities including reading aided by magnifying lenses, browsing newspapers, and gazing into mirrors. A placard on the wall reads: Young gentlemen instructed in fashionable accomplishments
Description:
Title and date based on Laurie & Whittle published etching after this drawing. and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Topic):
Older people, Newspapers, Mirrors, Bachelors, and Hand lenses
