The military macaroni [graphic].

Edition:

[State with volume and plate number].

Copyright Date:

Feby. 9th, 1773.

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 17.5 x 12.7 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Text below title: O -[Wilkes?] beware of this tremendous hat and arm, for should we by chance to meet it would me harm, for tho I to the world a poli-n now appear, yet d-n me but to my angelic wh-e am sincere.
Plate numbered "v. 6" in upper left corner and "4" in upper right corner.
For a variant (earlier?) state without plate numbering, see no. 5151 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.

Abstract:

"Whole length caricature portrait of a thin man with a large head walking or running in profile to the right. His wig is a high toupet with a queue in a black bag. In his left hand he holds out a small three-cornered hat, in his right is a sword whose point rests on the ground. He wears a short coat with facings and epaulettes, and a ruffled shirt."--British Museum online catalogue.

Topics:

Clothing & dress--England--1770-1780.
Daggers & swords.
Dandies--British.
Hairstyles.
Hats.
Military uniforms--British.
Wigs.

Topics:

Darly, M. (Mary), publisher.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1773.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1773.

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:

13910625

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr37163a

OID:

16737721

PID:

digcoll:4711302