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Macaroni fashion.- Darly (Matthew, c.1720-1780) The Extravaganza, or The Mountain Head Dress of 1776, etching with early hand-colouring in gouache, on laid paper with armorial watermark, sheet 340 x 235 mm. (13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in), trimmed to borderline, some surface dirt and browning, unframed, [BM Satires 5371], 1776; together with Carrington Bowles's mezzotint Welladay! is this my son Tom! after Samuel Hieronymous Grimm showing a distressed father meet his son dressed as a macaroni with high wig, cane and sword [BM 4536], an uncoloured etching by Darly, Macaroni Courtship, or the two Insignificants, and another after Boilly, Grand Papa's Wig, various sizes, all unframed, 1772 and later (4)

Description

Macaroni fashion.- Darly (Matthew, c.1720-1780) The Extravaganza, or The Mountain Head Dress of 1776, etching with early hand-colouring in gouache, on laid paper with armorial watermark, sheet 340 x 235 mm. (13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in), trimmed to borderline, some surface dirt and browning, unframed, [BM Satires 5371], 1776; together with Carrington Bowles's mezzotint Welladay! is this my son Tom! after Samuel Hieronymous Grimm showing a distressed father meet his son dressed as a macaroni with high wig, cane and sword [BM 4536], an uncoloured etching by Darly, Macaroni Courtship, or the two Insignificants, and another after Boilly, Grand Papa's Wig, various sizes, all unframed, 1772 and later (4)

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