• Title
  The Macaroni Print Shop / E. Topham, invt. et del.
• Call number
  SV/183
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  [England] : Pub. accor. to Act by M Darly, Strand, July 14th, 1772
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Prints
• Reference code
  913465
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 print - etching - plate mark 17.7 x 24.9 cm, on sheet 20.3 x 27.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Matthew (or Matthias) Darly (c. 1720-1778?), a printseller and designer, trained as an engraver. In 1756, Darly and the ornithologist George Edwards took a shop opposite the Hungerford market in the Strand publishing a burst of caricatures. Darly's wife, Mary Darly (fl. 1760-1781), assumed responsibility for the business in 1762. In 1766 the Darlys moved to 39 Strand. The shop supplied caricatures and ornament, as well as art supplies, stencils, portraits, and history prints. In the early 1770s the Darlys published satires of individuals, fashion, and manners. They invited sketches and ideas and received contributions from a variety of amateurs including Edward Topham. Prints "mocking affected macaronis and extremes of dress and coiffure" were common.
  
  References:
  Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Online edition. http://www.oxforddnb.com/ (accessed 3 December 2010)
• Scope and Content
  An etching showing the exterior of the shop of Matthew and Mary Darly at 39 Strand. The plate on the door of the shop is inscribed '39' 'Dar'... [i.e. Darly], and the windows of the shop are filled mostly with satirical prints of macaronies, including a portrait of Sir Joseph Banks. A group of men stand outside the shop looking at the prints.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Artist died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title and date taken from print
• General note
  
  The prints in the shop window depicted in the etching are identified and described in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum: division I, political and personal satires / prepared by Frederic George Stephens, v. 4, no. 4701 (accessed on Internet Archive on 3 December 2010. http://www.archive.org/)
  Digital order no:a7319001
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  The number '24' is inscribed above image at top right
• Subject
  Caricatures and cartoons--Great Britain
  Prints--18th century--Great Britain
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  shops
  etchings
  printers (people)
  
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