A dandy put to his last chemisette, or, Preparing for a Bond Street lounge [graphic] / I.R. Cruikshank fect.

[London] : Pubd. Oct. 26, 1818 by S.W. Fores 50 Piccadilly, [26 October 1818]

1 print : etching ; plate mark 25.1 x 35.5 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm

laid paper

"Scene in a ramshackle garret. A dandy in a late stage of decay crouches over the fire (where an iron is heating) on a small stool, holding out his shirt, befrilled and collared, but sleeveless. He wears tightly laced stays over bare flesh, which is ravaged by insects or skin-disease, with ragged drawers and socks. Other ragged garments hang from a string across the fireplace, others project from a crock (right) where they are being washed. Boots, blacking, &c., are on the floor. Coat, hat, trousers, and eyeglass lie on a makeshift bed; an overcoat hangs on a coat-hanger. His hair is brushed upwards from the neck with one lock arranged over the forehead. His whiskers are on a stand on the table, with broken combs, tooth-brush, &c. On the wall hang his umbrella, a pair of bootsoles, and a red herring. On the chimney-piece, with medicine-bottle, tea-pot, &c., is a ballad headed by a gibbet with corpses. On a box which forms a head to the bed are band-box, cane, cracked mirror, &c."--British Museum online catalogue.

Preparing for a Bond Street lounge

English

March 23, 2010

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9, no. 13061