Aminadab

The print is plate 11 from volume I of six volumes of Mary and Matthew Darly's "24 Caricatures by Several Ladies Gentleman Artists &c." "Aminadab" was slang term for Quakers during the 18th century, usually in a derogatory or mocking way. A copy of this print in the collection of the British Museum is annotated "Dr Fothergill" which might refer to John Fothergill or his brother who were both prominent English Quakers at the time this print was published. The man is dressed in the plain manner mandated by Quakers, including the broad-brimmed hat.

The Darly's were a husband-and-wife team capitalized on the craze for caricatures, the practice of making a likeness with exaggerated mannerisms or features to create a comic effect, a form that was brought back by aristocratic Britons who visited Italy on the Grand Tour. The Darly’s catered to this audience by publishing a prolific assortment of caricature prints during the 1770s. Many of the Darly's satirized the manners and fashions of the macaroni, a term used to describe a sub-culture of fashionably dressed men during the period, and subsequently, regardless of subject, the Darly's prints were known as "macaroni prints."

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