Title from caption below image., Text below title: "Lo this is their very guise.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1829.
"Three stages of a dandy: [1] He sits in an arm-chair, in a flowered dressing-gown, reading the 'Literary Gazette' [Jerdan's weekly review], and negligently dangling a coffee-cup. His whiskers, like his hair, are in curl-papers. [2] He stands full-face, smoking a small cigar and holding a riding-switch. A small top-hat is poised on flowing curls which mingle with his whiskers; his contour is feminine, with long tight-waisted double-breasted coat over very wide trousers. [3] In tail-coat and tight pantaloons he sits, playing a guitar and singing loudly. His hair is more tightly curled than in [2]. In all three his sleeves are tight but puffed on the shoulder. His flat pumps have large ribbon bows."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1827.
Title from caption below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Partial watermark.
Title from text below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Three couples and a young boy are picnicking outdoors. The large women with exaggerated sleeves and large bosoms exclaims: "Lauk, how hot the sun is to my back!" Everyone is oblivious to the fact that a fire is raging under the kettle behind her
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 269.
Title from caption below image., 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: J. Whatman 1829.
Title from text above images., Four designs on one plate, each individually captioned., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Not bleachd.
Publisher:
Published March, 1829, by S. Maunder, 10 Newgate Street
Title from caption below image., John Phillips: Satirical printmaker, worked for many publishers from 1825. Dorothy George in the British Museum catalogue suggests that Phillips was the producer of the prints made in 1829-31 by 'A Sharpshooter' and published by S. Gans, mostly pirating William Heath; she also suggests that he was the "false Paul Pry" of 1829 who used Heath's signature of a tiny figure of John Liston. ... A trade card of 'Phillips' also at 16 Brownlow Street is presumably the same man or a member of his family (Heal,56.12)., Text below title: By-and-bye a man will go a hunting after breakfast upon his tay-kettle., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
"The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
Description:
Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance