A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world
Object Information
Object Information
Description
- 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:
- Printed material
- 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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