The Flower Garden
Print
1777 (published)
1777 (published)
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Engraving of a woman in profile, with a towering mass of hair surmounted by a flower garden with a temple to Mercury with a gardener raking the gravel paths.
Signed with monogram. Lettered with title and 'Pub by MDarly May 1:1777. where may be had bath Caricatures'. Numbered '15 V.2'.
Signed with monogram. Lettered with title and 'Pub by MDarly May 1:1777. where may be had bath Caricatures'. Numbered '15 V.2'.
Object details
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Title | The Flower Garden (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | engraving |
Brief description | Matthew Darly, 'The Flower Garden', caricature of women's wigs, 1777 |
Physical description | Engraving of a woman in profile, with a towering mass of hair surmounted by a flower garden with a temple to Mercury with a gardener raking the gravel paths. Signed with monogram. Lettered with title and 'Pub by MDarly May 1:1777. where may be had bath Caricatures'. Numbered '15 V.2'. |
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Gallery label | Matthew Darly (worked 1750–78)
‘The Flower Garden’, from the series ‘Darly’s Comic Prints of Character, Caricatures, Macaronies etc’
London, 1777
Darly’s caricature of a woman’s coiffure lampoons the 1770s vogue for increasingly elaborate hairstyles. ‘The Flower Garden’, with its temple to Mercury and labouring gardener, may seem exaggerated, but in Paris the duchesse de Lauzun wore a wig with a whole landscape in relief, complete with ducks, a windmill and a miller leading his donkey.
Etching
Published by Matthew Darly
Museum no. E.2293-1966 |
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Bibliographic reference | Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1966 pub. HMSO 1967 |
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Accession number | E.2293-1966 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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