- Published / Created:
- [1 February 1775?]
- Call Number:
- 775.02.01.05
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A man wearing laced coat and sword and holding a snuff box leans on an elaborately carved console table of the pump room at Bath, admiring himself in a mirror. An illustration for the "History of Captain S_: or, the Bath Adonis."
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Date and publication information from British Museum catalogue., and Extended to 26 x 18 cm.
- Publisher:
- The Matrimonial Magazine?
- Subject (Geographic):
- Bath (England) and England
- Subject (Topic):
- Dandies, British, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Mirrors, Wallpaper, and Tables
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A Bath Adonis worshiping the idol of his affections [graphic].
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- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1810]
- Call Number:
- 810.00.00.83+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A macabre caricature divided into two compartments, The Dandy and The Dangle. On the left, a strutting dandy ties his neckcloth in front of a mirror saying: 'I declare these large Neckcloths are monstrously handy, They [serve] for a shirt too and make one a Dandy.' The right hand image is of a dandy, head covered in a cloth, dangling from a wooden beam with a tie around his neck. Behind him is a town square and in the foreground, a crowd looks on. The image is accompanied by the text: 'When a man comes to this there's little to hope, His neat Dandy Neckcloth is changed for a Rope'.
- Alternative Title:
- Modern neckcloths
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Date from dealer's description., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Contemporary manuscript correction in ink of the leftmost speech bubble, with the omitted word "serve" inserted.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Fashion, Great Britain, Clothing & dress, Crowds, Dandies, Mirrors, Neckties, and Hangings (Executions)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Fashionable ties, or, Modern neckcloths [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1774?]
- Call Number:
- 774.00.00.28
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An ugly man with his feet turned in, dressed in macaroni style with tasselled hat, tasselled stick, and a curved sword, stands with an expression of anxious expectation in front of two fashionably dressed young women who appraise him from behind. Another young woman devotes her attention to a handsome young man who smiles as he gazes down at her; probably John of the title
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image., Publication date from Library of Congress version under the same title. Cf. LC PC 3 - 1774., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted to 29 x 21 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John, do the ladies admire me? [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1776?]
- Call Number:
- 776.00.00.08
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two gentlemen each wearing swords and the period costume of 1740 and 1776 stand on the left and right respectively
- Description:
- Title from item., Sheet trimmed., Text at top of design: Engrav'd for the New lottery magazine., and Trimmed within plate mark.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- England and Great Britain.
- Subject (Topic):
- Men's clothing, Dandies, and Clothing & dress
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Macaroni dresses for 1740 and 1776 [graphic].