- Also known as
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Mary Darly
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primary name: Darly, Mary
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maiden name: Salmon, Mary
- Details
- individual; publisher/printer; printmaker; British; Female
- Life dates
- 1736-1791 (13 September 1736-26 February 1791)
- Address
- Long Lane, Bermondsey (family home at time of marriage)
1762: Ryder's Court, near Cranbourn Alley, Leicester Fields
1766-80: 39 Strand, on the corner of Buckingham Street
1780: 159 Fleet Street (published from this address after her husband's death in January 1780)
- Biography
- Caricaturist and print publisher; second (or possibly third) wife of Matthias whom she married on 28 October 1759; for further information on their joint activity, and addresses, see his biographical notice. When the authorship is not clear plates lettered "M Darly" are catalogued in the BM under both names.
An impression of a print from the Darlys' Macaroni series entitled The Female Conoiseur (1852,0214.362) was annotated by Horace Walpole "Mrs Darly" and is assumed to be her portrait, although that cannot be confirmed.
- Bibliography
- Harriet J. Stroomberg, 'Matthew en Mary Darly: Graveurs, uitgevers en verkopers van prenten in London 1748-1781' in Die Boekenwereld 13 (1996-97), pp. 229-241
Sheila O'Connell, 'Mary Darly, Fun Merchant and Caricaturist' in 'Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women', ed. C. Martinez and C. Roman, forthcoming 2022/23.
