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The hen-pecked Dandy / I R Cruikshank fect.

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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856

The hen-pecked Dandy / I R Cruikshank fect.

[London] : Pubd Novr 7 1818 by T Tegg 111 Cheapside, [1818
etching, hand colored
image: 218 x 324 mm; plate mark: 246 x 348 mm; sheet: 271 x 371 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.481
Notes
Engraved verses below image: The Demon of Fashion Sir Fopling bewitches-- The reason his Lady betrays-- For as she is resolved upon wearing the Breeches, In revenge he has taken the Stays!
Plate numbered 320 at upper right.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows a dressing-room scene. A dandy stands by the dressing-table (right) making a gesture of rejection towards his wife (left). He is lacing a pair of stays over his shirt and puffed-out breeches. His waist is very small, his bare legs emaciated; a set of false teeth is on the dressing-table. She is plump and comely, and holds out her arms to him; she wears frilled drawers reaching below the calf, and a long pad across her shoulders to give her short-waisted dress the fashionable line. A large fire is burning; on it is an iron; kettle and coffee-pot are on the hob. Before it on a towel-rail hang stockings and other garments; top-boots are warming by the fender. A high-shouldered coat hangs on a T-shaped stand. On a shelf above the wash-stand a pair of short yellow gloves are drying on stands.

Associated names
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department