Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 January 1768]
Call Number:
Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:
Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of music lie on the floor; a monkey plays with a fan; a little dog capers on its hind legs behind the dancing pair. On the wall behind are two pictures in ornate frames, one of a dancing couple and the other of a bear dancing with its keeper."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker and publisher identified as Matthias Darly in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,5.80., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner., Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Music-books -- Bear-leaders -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume -- Male costume -- Dancers., and Bound in opposite page 79 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?].
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego., Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28.3 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
In the upper left a group of three musicians play instruments as a black man in livery dances at the center of a well-dressed group revelers in a servants' hall decorated for the Christmas holidays. The masters of the house and their guests look on. The chandelier and long case clocks are decorated with holly and mistletoe hangs from the ceiling. One man kisses a large, buxom woman who recoils in surprise. Another couple flirt on the right at a table opposite a man who has passed out, playing cards strewn on the floor at his feet. The back wall is dominated by a large cupboard filled with dishes and platters
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Blind man's buff., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Pubd. by G. Tregear 136 Drury Lane
Subject (Topic):
Christmas decorations, Couples, Cupboards, Dance, Kissing, Longcase clocks, Musicians, Playing cards, Servants, and Servants' quarters
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground to right, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Numbered "3" in upper right corner., Caption below, on either side of title beginning: The catalogue and character of th' enemies best men of war; whom in a bold harangue [the] knight defies, and challenges to fight. H' encounters Talgol, routs the bear, and takes the fidler prisoner; conveys him to enchanted castle, there shuts him fast in wooden bastile., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Publisher:
Sold by Phil. Overton near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground to right, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Caption below, on either sige of title beginning: "The catalogue and character of th' enemies best men of war; whome ina bold harangue [the] knight defies, and challenges to fight. H' encounters Talgol, routs the bear, and takes the fidler prisoner; conveys him to enchanted castle, there shuts him fast in wooden bastile.", and Numbered "3" in upper right corner.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground to right, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Numbered "3" in upper right corner., Caption below, on either sige of title beginning: The catalogue and character of th' enemies best men of war; whome ina bold harangue [the] knight defies, and challenges to fight. H' encounters Talgol, routs the bear, and takes the fidler prisoner; conveys him to enchanted castle, there shuts him fast in wooden bastile., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Imprint mostly erased from this impression.
Publisher:
Sold by Phil. Overton near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet and Ino. Cooper in Iames Street, Convent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
Hudibras and Ralpho encounter a mob armed with sticks; in the foreground to right, a one-legged fiddler, a butcher and a dancing bear with his leader. On the left, a woman reaches out her arms
Description:
Title engraved below image., State, publisher, and date from Paulson., Numbered "3" in upper right corner., Caption below, on either sige of title beginning: The catalogue and character of th' enemies best men of war; whome ina bold harangue [the] knight defies, and challenges to fight. H' encounters Talgol, routs the bear, and takes the fidler prisoner; conveys him to enchanted castle, there shuts him fast in wooden bastile., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 30 in volume 1. Plate trimmed to: 26.7 x 34 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by Phil. Overton near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet and Ino. Cooper in Iames Street, Convent Garden
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
Subject (Topic):
History, Bears, Crowds, Butchers, Musicians, People with disabilities, Puritans, Riots, and Trained animals
