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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.
  • The gouty King George IV relaxing before nine portraits chronicling his past extravagant styles of dress; representing the King's attempt to withdraw from public ridicule. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1824.
  • Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
  • A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.
  • A fashionable man takes his hat off while strolling; his hairdresser assists him by supporting the weight of his large wig. Coloured engraving by J. Caldwell after M.V. Brandoin.
  • John Cottington, a chimney-sweep, in elaborate costume walking the street with smoking pipe and horn in hand, with descriptive verse. Line block, 18--, after engraving, c. 1620.
  • Mr. Lambkin dressing up in front of a mirror. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
  • Roderick Random's fellow surgeon's mate approaching their new captain for the post of surgeon while docked in Jamaica; the foppish Captain Whiffle has fainted due to Morgan's appearance and odour, his entourage try to revive him with smelling salts and lavender water. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1793, after himself, after T. Smollett, c. 1750.
  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • A dandy being laced into a tight corset by two servants. Coloured etching, 1819.
  • A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
  • A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
  • The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
  • An elaborately dressed travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth in a carriage from a patient. Drypoint.
  • A skeleton wearing fashionable clothes. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1898.
  • 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.
  • Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
  • A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.
  • A foppish dentist on stage extracting a tooth from a patient who is being restrained by a man dressed as Pierrot. Coloured etching by A. Auger, 1817.
  • Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.
  • Six fashionable young men carousing round a table as a serving man opens another bottle of ale. Engraving, c. 1796.
  • A dandy being laced into a tight corset by two servants. Coloured etching, 1819.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the Painted Hall, a fancy fair in progress. Wood engraving.
  • 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.
  • A fashionably-dressed dandy apothecary. Etching by M. Darly, 1772.
  • Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Lithograph after H. Heath, c. 1840.