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DARLY, MATTHIAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 835 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DARLY, See also:MATTHIAS , 18th-See also:century See also:English caricaturist, designer and engraver. This extremely versatile artist not only issued See also:political caricatures, but designed ceilings, See also:chimney-pieces, See also:mirror frames, girandoles, decorative panels and other mobiliary accessories, made many engravings for See also:Thomas See also:Chippendale, and sold his own productions over the See also:counter. He was apparently an architect by profession. The first publication which can be attributed to him with certainty is a coloured See also:caricature, " The See also:Cricket Players of See also:Europe " (1741). In 1754 he issued A new See also:Book of See also:Chinese Designs, which was intended to See also:minister to the passing craze for See also:furniture and See also:household decorations in the Chinese See also:style. It was in this See also:year that he engraved many of the plates for the Director of Thomas Chippendale. He published from many addresses, most of them in the Strand or its immediate neighbourhood, and his See also:shop was for a See also:long See also:period perhaps the most important of its See also:kind in See also:London. In his book Nollekens and his Times, J. T. See also:Smith, See also:writing of See also:Richard See also:Cosway, says:—" So ridiculously foppish did he become that Matth. Darly, the famous caricature See also:print seller, introduced an See also:etching of him in his window in the Strand as the ` See also:Macaroni See also:Miniature Painter.' " Darly was for many years in See also:partnership with a See also:man named See also:Edwards, and together they published many political prints, which were originally issued separately and collected annually into volumes under the See also:title of Political and Satirical See also:History. Darly was a member both of the Incorporated Society of Artists and the See also:Free Society of Artists, forerunners of the Royal See also:Academy, and to their exhibitions he contributed many architectural drawings, together with a See also:profile etching of himself (1775).

Upon one of these etchings, published from 39 Strand, he is described as ' See also:

Professor of See also:Ornament to the Academy of See also:Great See also:Britain." Darly's most important publication was The Ornamental Architect or See also:Young Artists' Instructor (1770-1771), a title which was changed in the edition of 1773 to A Compleat See also:Body of See also:Architecture, embellished with a great Variety of Ornaments. He also issued Sixty Vases by English, See also:French and See also:Italian Masters (1767). In addition to his immense See also:mass of other productions Darly executed many book plates, illustrated various books and See also:cabinet-makers' catalogues, and gave lessons in etching. His skill as a caricaturist brought him into See also:close See also:personal relations with the politicians of his See also:time, and in 1763 he was instrumental in saving See also:John Wilkes, whose See also:partisan he was, from See also:death at the hands of See also:James Dunn, who had determined to kill him. Darly, who described himself as " Liveryman and See also:block maker," issued his last caricature in See also:October 1780, and as his shop, No. 39 Strand, was let to a new See also:tenant in the following year, it is to be presumed that he had by that time died, or become incapable of further See also:work. As a designer of furniture Darly travelled in a dozen years or so from the extremes of pseudo-Chinese affectation to classical severity of the type popularized by the See also:brothers See also:Adam.

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