Pub according to Act by MDarly December 20.th 1771.
Scarce etching. 205 x 330mm (8 x 13"), large margins Old ink number in margin, laid on 18th century album paper.
Three ornamental designs for scroll work for room decoration. Plate 5 of 'A New Book of Ornaments In the Present (Antique) Taste as now used by all Professions' by Matthias (or Matthew) Darly, a drawing master and engraver who had worked with Thomas Chippendale in the 1750s, but is best known now for his caricatures.
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