The whale bone macaroni [graphic].

Copyright Date:

[22 October 1772]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 176 x 124 mm, on sheet 246 x 153 mm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Plate from vol. V: Caricatures, macaronies, & characters. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1772.
Plate numbered "v. 5" in upper left corner and "9" in upper right corner.

Abstract:

"Whole length portrait of a man standing with his feet crossed. In his right hand is a tasselled cane and under his right arm are sections of a pair of stays in course of construction. He wears a macaroni club, a laced hat, short coat and laced waistcoat, cravat, and ruffled shirt. Probably a stay-maker."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Whalebone macaroni

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780.
Corsets.
Dandies--British.
Hairstyles.
Neckties.
Occupations.
Staffs (Sticks)
Wigs.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Caption:

leaf 58 right

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1772.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1772.
Watermarks (Paper)--CtY-LW

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:

8338064

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37153c

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5045

OID:

16737699

PID:

digcoll:4711264