The haberdasher dandy [graphic] / C. Williams fect.

London : Pubd. by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside, [1818?]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 42 cm

wove paper

Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left.

"Interior of a shop. The dandy (left) cuts a length of material, the end of which lies in folds on the floor. He bends insinuatingly to a woman who leans with her elbows on the counter, saying: "He! He! nothing talked of but Dandies Mem now Mem! what is the next thing I shall have the felicity to do for you Mem!!" She answers: "The next thing Mr Dandy is to measure that over again, and see how much you have cut Short." She and a lady seated on a stool beside her wear huge bonnets in the fashion of 1818. The dandy (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13029) wears a very long coat over wide trousers; the points of his collar are above his ears. Across the window stretches a line over which hang ribbons and scarves. Through the glass panes of the door a dandy is seen about to enter, while another man stares at him."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

August 23, 2016

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 9, no. 13075