"A promenade, with clouds added in watercolour as the only background; dandies are smoking cheroots and puffing out clouds of smoke. One stoops, puffing into a lady's face which is thus completely hidden; she staggers back; on an ascending cloud are the words Fond of Steaming Ladies? do you Smoke it, Eh! A second man stands over him, also smoking hard. On the left a dandy's moustache is blazing, he staggers back, his hat falling, his cheroot on the ground, and shouts Fire Fire Oh Dear my best Mustacios will be quite Destroyed. The man behind him, letting his cheroot fall from his mouth, screams Fire Fire. On the extreme left a fireman with the badge of the Sun Fire Office on his arm laughs, saying, Why Master I must fetch our Engine to put out your Steam Engine. The men wear bell-shaped top-hats, coats with a large collar standing away from the neck, and sometimes "with a single cape to the waist; trousers are full at the waist and tightly strapped over spurred boots. The women wear fur tippets and feathered bonnets; one has a huge muff."--British Museum online catalogue, description of reissued state
Alternative Title:
Costumes and customs of 1820
Description:
Title etched below image., Attribution to William Heath from description of reissued state in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., "Price 1 s.", For a reissue with the digit "0" in "1820" in both the title and the imprint etched over with a "4", see no. 14726 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Pub. Feb. 26, 1820 by S.W. Fores 41 Picadilli [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Smoking, Muffs, and Hats
"A promenade in Hyde Park. Pelisses heavily trimmed with fur, large muffs, and feathered hats are conspicuous; skirts, slightly trained, reach the ground. One woman wears a much-patterned and flounced dress, without a wrap, and a bonnet surmounted with realistic flowers. The leaning back attitude in walking (see British Museum Satires No. 14438) is that of one woman only; she takes the arm of a dandy in frogged coat and inflated white trousers. A man in a tight-waisted overcoat with large buttons worn with boots, breeches, and a checked neck-cloth, his hands in his pockets, is conspicuous: the lady taking his arm wears much ermine, with a muff and a hat which is a base for towering roses and a dangling lace veil. Uniforms are absent."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Spring fashions for 1824 and Monstrosities of 182[4]
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Imperfect; the digit "4" in "1824" at end of title has been changed to a "6" in manuscript, and the digit "4" in "1824" in text above image has been added in manuscript. Obscured text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Publisher:
Pub. March 14, 1824, by S.W. Fores, 41 Picadilly [sic]
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Muffs, and Hats