This club was instituted & kept at Almacks & called the Macaroni Society [art original].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
- Copyright Date:
- [1765?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : pen and ink on brown laid paper ; sheet 88 x 53 mm
- Notes:
- Titled by the artist in ink below image.
Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work.
Date from local card catalog record.
Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225. - Abstract:
- A thin man, dressed in macaroni fashion, stands in profile to the right, holding a cane in his right hand and a bouquet in his left hand; a sword hangs from his side. A child stands behind him, hat held out as if begging for money.
- Variant Titles:
- This club was instituted and kept at Almacks and called the Macaroni Society
- Topics:
- Beggars.
Bouquets.
Children.
Daggers & swords.
Dandies--British.
Hats.
Staffs (Sticks) - Topics:
- Almack's (London, England)
Walpole, Horace,--1717-1797--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Ink drawings--British--18th century.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1765. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Source Title:
- Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Call Number:
- 49 3563
Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 15573505
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr22036j
- Citation:
- Henry William Bunbury, This Club was Instituted & Kept at Almacks & Called the Macaroni Society. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 17355510
- PID:
- digcoll:5255615
