[Rarebooks] fa: MATTHEW & MARY DARLY + HENRY BUNBURY - Caricatures 1771-74

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with a colorful assortment of vintage satirical  
prints and illustrated works, auctions ending Sunday, April 17. More  
details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under  
the seller name arch_in_la.

http://shop.ebay.com/arch_in_la/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

MATTHEW & MARY DARLY - NINE COSTUME ENGRAVINGS - 1772
	PLATES From "MACARONIES, CHARACTERS, CARICATURES &c."

HENRY BUNBURY/MATTHEW & MARY DARLY - ENGRAVINGS - 1771

THREE 18TH-CENTURY SATIRICAL "MACARONI" ENGRAVINGS
	HAIR-DRESSER - CITY MACARONIS - JOHNNY WORRAL - 1770s

MATTHEW DARLY (aka Mathias) and MARY DARLY were a husband-and-wife  
team of artists, engravers and publishers who flourished in the third  
quarter of the 18th century (ca. 1756-1779). Besides his gifts as a  
caricaturist, Matthew was an accomplished designer of furnishings,  
chimney pieces, ceilings and decorative panels, and engraved many of  
Thomas Chippendale's designs. For her part, Mary, sometimes called the  
"mother of pictorial satire," was one of the first, and certainly the  
first female, professional caricaturists in England. Describing  
herself as "Fun Merchant", Mary ran the publishing side of the the  
couples' prolific operation. Together, the Darlys "dominated the  
transition from Hogarth to Gillray and Rowlandson" (M. Dorothy  
George), and are credited with being among the first to combine visual  
caricature with satire, in effect giving birth to the political cartoon.

Among their many other accomplishments, the Darlys are credited with  
discovering HENRY BUNBURY, publishing his very earliest sketches, as  
here. Bunbury (1750 - 1811) went on to become one of the most popular  
and respected artists and caricaturists of his day, especially known  
for his sporting images. A friend of Gainsborough, Rowlandson, and  
many other artists of the period, he was also a bit of a lad: the  
diarist Joseph Farington described him as "living most of his time a  
sotting life at Bury in Suffolk."