Pubd. by MDarly accor to Act (39) Strand May 7th 1772.
Etching, 175 x 125mm. 7 x 5".
A fashionably-dressed man holds an open chest full of caps and laces. In his right hand he dangles a woman's flat hat trimmed with ribbons. From 'Macaronies, Characters, Caricatures &c designed by the greatest personages, artists &c', in an album of caricatures published by Mary Darly dated January 1776. It seems that her husband Matthew made the plates. Numbered 'V.3' upper left and '5' faintly upper right.
BM Satires: 5007.
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