The shuffling macaroni [graphic] / J.H. fecit.

Creator:

H., J., active 1772, printmaker.

Edition:

[State with volume number].

Copyright Date:

[2 April 1772]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.7 x 12.8 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Signed by unidentified printmaker "J.H."
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
"Who calls me a macaroni"--Text above image.
Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "1" in upper right corner.
For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5005 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupee wigs -- Tasselled canes -- Lockets.

Abstract:

A man standing in profile and shown full-length walking to the right as he looks at himself in a hand-mirror. He wears a very tall wig, the queue tied in back with a very large bow, and a ruffled shirt. In his left hand he holds a tasselled cane.

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780.
Dandies--British.
Mirrors.
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 58 left

Language:

English

Genre:

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

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

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

Call Number:

Folio 724 776D

Orbis Record:

13905526

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37137a

OID:

16737649

PID:

digcoll:4711221