A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world

Object Information

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Object no:
Wep 0494.74
Title:
A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world
Series title:
Darly's comic prints
Publisher and production place:
Darly, M
London

Production date:
1 May 1777
Dimensions:
295 mm x 465 mm (height x width)
Material:
Paper (material) Ink (material) Pigment (material)
Language:
English (Language)
Collection:
Western Prints and Drawings collection
Object category:
Monograph
Object name:
Engraving
Description:
Hand-coloured etching from a composite album of 97 folios (147 prints) of comic illustrations under the title Darly's Comic Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies &c., published by Mary and Matthew Darly in London in 1777. Written on the bottom of a copy in the British Museum is ‘Mrs Macauley. Dr. Wilson’s picture’. Catharine Macaulay was an historian and advocate of coeducation who, at the time, was living in the house of Dr Thomas Wilson in Bath. A skeleton grinds lead face powder with an hourglass, a comment on the dangers of vanity and cosmetics.

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