- Published / Created:
- [1819?]
- Call Number:
- 819.00.00.37
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene on a city sidewalk: a dandy who has dropped his handkerchief has trouble picking it up. A couple from the townhouse opposite and a couple of men on the sidewalk laugh at the struggles of the dandy
- Alternative Title:
- Dandy in distress!
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Thirteen lines of text below title: A correspondent furnishes us with the following picture of an exquisite alias a dandy in distress, "Walking in one of the squares last week it was my fate to follow an exquisite ...", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > An exquisite alias dandy in distress! [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [1818?]
- Call Number:
- 818.02.06.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A foppish parson, directed to the left, wearing a voluminous surplice over a high 'dandy' (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) collar, with bands, and displaying elegant be-ringed hands, preaches from a pulpit, the upper part only of which is depicted. In his eye is stuck a monocle with short handle and cord. A large book is on his pulpit-cushion, which is elaborately trimmed with gold fringe, and he reads with a complacent smile: "And behold in these times the Dan-dees were" / "arrayed in Garments of divers fashions--and in" / "fine Linens curiously wrought--and moreover--" / "they were gazed upon by the bretheren of the Land," / "in which they dwelt--and the people marvelled." / "Lib. 2-- ver 6. 7. 8"."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Possibly a later state, with imprint removed, of a print published 6 February 1818 by S.W. Fores. Cf. No. 13016 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Date of publication based on description of possible earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clergy, Preaching, Pulpits, and Rings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable reading vide new church Oxford. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1818.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 3 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man and a woman are shown in profile, half-length; their facial features fit together likes pieces of a puzzle
- Description:
- Signed in ink lower left: GCk., Original drawing, basis for a publish print: Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by Nature!!! See British Museum. Catalogue of political and personal satires, v. 9, 13131., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Dandies, British, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sure such a pair were never seen so justly form'd to meet by nature!!! [art original]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist
- Published / Created:
- 1819.
- Call Number:
- Drawings C889 no. 5 Box D115
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A satirical coat of arms for the "Dandy." The shield is a dandy's tail-coat, supported by two monkey's dressed in clothes. The crest is a stay and a top hat. Underneath the shield, are written the words "Dandi, Dando, Dandum" below which a puppy is suspended
- Description:
- Title inscribed below image., Inscription in ink in image: Coat of Arms. Azure. The Sexes impaled improper between two Butterflies - Two flances; on the dexter flanch three pair of Stays, argent, the sinister flanch charged with Rouge Pomat & smellg bottle, On the Canton, Dexter a frill rampant in the sinister Canton a false collar rampant - small cloaths passive in pile supported by pins - Supporters- Two Monkies - proper - Crest, a pr of Stays full padded - supporting a Cravat & Collar Rampant proper, holding a blockhead argent & gules, wingerd with asses ears proper the whole under cover of a Sable Bever., Basis for print published as: The dandies coat of arms, See British Museum Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, vol. 9, 13394., George Cruikshank, English graphic artist, 1792-1878., For further information, consult library staff., and Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. 15, p. 143.
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, and Coats of arms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The dandies coat of arms [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [1788?]
- Call Number:
- 788.06.17.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The decayed macaroni a well known character!!! [graphic]
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1765?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A thin man, dressed in macaroni fashion, stands in profile to the right, holding a cane in his right hand and a bouquet in his left hand; a sword hangs from his side. A child stands behind him, hat held out as if begging for money
- Alternative Title:
- This club was instituted and kept at Almacks and called the Macaroni Society
- Description:
- Titled by the artist in ink below image., Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work., Date from local card catalog record., and Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Subject (Name):
- Almack's (London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Staffs (Sticks), Bouquets, Daggers & swords, Hats, Children, and Beggars
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > This club was instituted & kept at Almacks & called the Macaroni Society [art original].
- Creator:
- Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1789]
- Call Number:
- Drawings B87 no. 7 Box D105
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A fashionably dressed dandy holds a quizzing glass up to one eye and a short cane in the other hand
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Date form unverified data from local card catalog record., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Topic):
- Monocles, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [A dandy holding a quizzing glass] [art original].
- Creator:
- Mercer, Captain
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1787]
- Call Number:
- Drawings M553 no. 1 Box D205
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A campanion piece to print of the same title (Such things are. Telles choses sont) which ridicules women's dress. This plate shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the period
- Description:
- Title and date from print based on this drawing published by S.W. Fores April 2, 1787., Attributed to Captain Mercer: According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comed. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328., and Formerly mounted with an impression of the engraving, based on this drawing: See Lewis Walpole Library 787.04.02.04+.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- Inchbald, Mrs., 1753-1821.
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, French, and Men
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Such things are] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- publish'd as the act directs, June 1773.
- Call Number:
- 773.06.00.24.2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger., Other prints in the series were designed and etched by either Tim Bobbin or Thomas Sandars., Plate from: Human passions delineated in above 120 figures ... design'd in the Hogarthian style ... by Timo[thy] Bobbin. [Manchester] : John Heywood, 1773., Plate numbered '24' in upper right corner., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Macaronies -- Toupée wigs -- Club wigs -- Nosegays -- Female dress, 1773.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Wigs, Corsages, and Flowers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [The human passions]. [graphic]. 24