A macaroni dressing room [graphic] / I.W. sc.

Creator:

W., I., active 1772, printmaker.

Copyright Date:

[26 June 1772]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; plate mark 25 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 26 x 37 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge.
CtY-LW
Plate numbered '12' in upper right corner.
For another version of this design in reverse, see no. 4781 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.

Abstract:

A group of macaronis in a dressing room, one having his hair dressed by a flamboyant hairdresser and his young black assistant, another practising fencing, a third plays with his pet cockatoo, another looks down at a servant boy who is spilling a tray of cups. The pictures on the wall allude to the action ("Morning Devotion") and themes (Rotten Row Macaroni) in the print; also an ornate mirror is centered in the room on the wall. On the floor is a sheet with the Newmarket horse races listed. The man having his hair tended wears beauty patches on his cheek.

Topics:

Blacks.
Boudoirs.
Cockatoos.
Dandies.
Hairdressing.
Mirrors.
Servants.
Vanity.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 18

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1772.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1772.

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html

Source Title:

Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

8328856

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37083

OID:

16737537

PID:

digcoll:4711113