A Mungo macaroni [graphic].

Copyright Date:

Septr. 10, 1772.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 176 x 127 mm, on sheet 220 x 139 mm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Plate from vol. III: Characters, macaronies, & caricatures. [London] : Pubd. by MDarly, 39 Strand, 1773.
Plate numbered "v. 4" in upper left corner and "14" in upper right corner.

Abstract:

"A black man, dressed as a macaroni except for his tightly curled natural wool, walks in profile to the right. His right hand holds a cane, his left is on the hilt of a short curved sword or sabre with an ornamental hilt affected by macaronis."--British Museum online catalogue.
"Perhaps a caricature of Jeremiah Dyson, always called Mungo after the name had been given him in a debate by Col. Barré, 29 Jan. 1769. Mungo was a negro slave in the comic opera 'The Padlock' by Bickerstaffe, and the name implied that Dyson was kept at dirty jobs for the Government."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Blacks,--depicted.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85014672
Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780.
Daggers & swords.
Dandies--British.
Politicians--England.
Staffs (Sticks)

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93008197
Dyson, Jeremiah,--1722-1776--Caricatures and cartoons.

Caption:

leaf 58 middle

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:

11705494

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37148b

Citation:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4, no. 5030

OID:

16737683

PID:

digcoll:4711268