The Macaroni Captains.
Pub.d Accord.g to Act, Sep.r 17th. 1772, by MDarly (39) Strand.
Etching, 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾").
Two military men engaged in a violent struggle with some geese using their swords and a cane: one goose is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of the soldier to left, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword. The other soldier is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks; one lies dead on the ground. Numbered '11' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 5061.
[Ref: 14100] £220.00
Etching, 175 x 245mm (7 x 9¾").
Two military men engaged in a violent struggle with some geese using their swords and a cane: one goose is biting the end of the long pigtail queue of the soldier to left, who holds another goose by the neck in his right hand and is about to strike it with his sword. The other soldier is threatening a goose with his sword and also with his tasselled cane. Three geese hiss angrily with outstretched necks; one lies dead on the ground. Numbered '11' upper right. From an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates.
BM Satires: 5061.
[Ref: 14100] £220.00