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Dandies

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  • Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.
  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.
  • Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching by J. Cawse, 1799.
  • A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.
  • A man in a gown is sitting on a chair in the middle of the room, preparing his dress and very elaborate hair style, with other men in the room. Coloured etching by I.W., 1772, after Captain Minshull.
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Catalogue

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    Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.

    | Date: [approximately 1840?] | Reference: 26908i
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    A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.

    Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830. | Date: 1819 | Reference: 11811i
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    A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: [between 1730 and 1739?] | Reference: 16957i
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    A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.

    | Date: Pubd. according to Act. 12 August 1772 | Reference: 10947i
    Part of: Macaronies, characters, caricatures
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    Oscar Wilde prefigured : queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900 / Dominic Janes.

    Janes, Dominic | Date: 2016
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