"Reissue of a print published by Humphrey, 25 June 1819. An enormously tall pole projects from a rocky mound seen against a background of sea and icebergs. A sailor with a Union flag has climbed nearly to the top; at the base is a little group of sailors, waving their hats, who have just scaled the mound. One, a stout officer, is Ross; climbing up the rock is a black servant. See No. 13194, &c."--British Museum online catalogue
"Scene in a school-room, pupils performing for admiring relations and friends. Eight little girls in party frocks do dance-steps while an agitated dancing-master leans angrily towards them, playing his fiddle. Other little girls watch from a bench (right). Boys sit in two tiers on an improvised platform from which they have stuck pens in the wig of an aged schoolmaster who is greeting a visitor. A dressed-up old woman hands a tray of refreshments to caricatured guests seated on the left, while four dandified men stand on the right. An ugly old woman snuffs a candle while she menaces the group of boys. On the wall are a sampler and drawings perpetrated by the pupils. There is a hanging gas chandelier."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 15187 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10; originally published Dec. 12, 1826, by S. Knights., and Mounted to 25 x 33 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augt. 1st, 1835, by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Print shows three fashionable dandies in a well-furnished room. One (left) sings, seated, and with a leg resting on a second (lyre-backed) chair; he leans sentimentally, hand on heart, towards a lutanist reclining on a (Regency) sofa playing an ornate curiously shaped instrument. The third stands behind the sofa, playing a flageolet, and admiring himself in a mirror above the ornate fireplace. The vocalist holds an open music-book: 'Love has eyes.' On the floor beside him are two others: 'The Lovesick Swain set to Music' and 'Our Warbling Notes and Ivory lutes Shall ravish every ear.' Two whole length portraits flank the mirror, one of a lady in quasi-Elizabethan dress, the other of a man similarly dressed, both having pinched waists and full busts. Below one is a picture of 'Vacuna' [Goddess of rural leisure], a blowzy woman lying under a tree; below the other, a grotesque 'Narcissus' admires his reflection. On the end of the sofa sits a grotesquely clipped (and dandified) poodle suckling puppies
Alternative Title:
Dandy trio and Hummingbirds, or, A dandy trio
Description:
Title etched below image., After a design by amateur caricaturist John Sheringham; see British Museum catalogue., Later state, with G. Humphrey's original imprint replaced. For an earlier state, see no. 13446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., A reissue of a print originally published 15 July 1819 by G. Humphrey. This later state was included in Thomas McLean's 1835 collective reissue of several Cruikshank etchings entitled "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, England., and London.
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, Fashion, Clothing and dress, British, Interiors, Musicial instruments, Musicians, Music, Parlors, and Poodles